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SOUL  SCIENCE 

THE  PROOF  OF  LIFE  AFTER  DEATH 


BY 


FRANKLIN  A.  THOMAS 


Author  of  “How  to  Hold  Circles  for  Developing 
Mediumship  at  Home”,  “An  Essay  on  the  Laws  of 
Psychic  Development”,  etc. 


BOSTON 

Machine  Composition  Co. 
1920 


Copyright,  1920,  by  Franklin  A.  Thomas 
All  Rights  Reserved 


0!/  Court  Gar^briti^ 


Machine  Composition  Co. 
Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 


SOUL  SCIENCE 


Soul  Science  is  a method  which  demonstrates  how 
the  Spirit,  while  in  mortal  form,  can  accomplish  its 
work  for  Good,  which  is  the  Soul. 


CONTENTS 

I.  Why  We  Have  Weitteit  ‘‘Soxil  Sci- 

e:vce,  the  Proof  of  Life  After 

Death” 17 

II.  Prayer 25 

III.  Our  Religion 26 

IV.  The  Creation 34 

V.  God 36 

VI.  Creation  of  Man 52 

VII.  Birth 54 

VIII.  The  Material  Body 59 

IX.  Material  and  Spiritual  Bodies  . . 63 

X.  We  Must  Be  Born  Again  ....  69 

XI.  Spirit 75 

XII.  Difference  Between  Dreams  and 

Visions 87 

XIII.  Thought 93 

XIV.  Two  Places 102 

XV.  All  Evil  Is  Undeveloped  Good  . . 107 

XVI.  Body,  Spirit  and  Soul 114 

XVII.  The  God  to  Worship 117 

XVIII.  God’s  Laws . 122 

XIX.  Man-made  Laws 133 

XX.  How  TO  Serve  God 138 

XXI.  What  We  Are  Here  and  In  the 

Spirit  World 144 


XXII. 

Our  Work  Here  and  In  the  Spirit 
World 

151 

XXIII. 

Call  on  the  Spirits  and  Ask  for 
What  You  Want 

160 

XXIV. 

Who  Answers  Prayer?  . . . . 

168 

XXV. 

What  Do  Spirits  Know?  .... 

172 

XXVI. 

Clothing  and  Characteristics  of 
Spirits 

176 

XXVII. 

The  Difference  Between  Spirit  and 
Thought  

183 

XXVIII. 

Never  Describe  Nor  Give  a Sririt 
Message  In  Public  .... 

190 

XXIX. 

How  To  Hold  Classes  and  Call  On 
AND  Communicate  With  Spirits  . 

197 

XXX. 

Speak  a Word  of  Cheer  .... 

206 

XXXI. 

Now  Is  the  Time  To  Do  Good  . . 

210 

XXXII. 

Why  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of 
Life  After  Death”  Should  Be  In 
Every  Home 

214 

XXXIII. 

The  Truth  

227 

XXXIV. 

Destiny  and  Heredity 

230 

XXXV. 

Stop  Publishing  About  Crimes  and 
Murders 

236 

XXXVI. 

Liars  and  Slanderers 

244 

XXXVII. 

Obsession  

253 

XXXVIII. 

Diseases  and  Treatments  .... 

256 

XXXIX. 

How  To  Conduct  Services  . . . 

266 

XL. 

Death  Is  Natural 

277 

XLI. 

The  Resurrection  Morn  .... 

280 

XLII. 

My  World 

282 

XLIII. 

Prayer  

284 

Conclusion 

286 

A Request  

288 

PREFACE 


Never  in  the  history  of  the  world  was  there  a time 
when  people  more  desired  information  concerning 
the  future  life  after  so-called  death  than  at  present. 

In  every  country  and  nation,  in  every  tribe  and 
clan  of  the  earth,  man  has  always  been  groping  fo^' 
the  light  of  Truth,  never  satisfied  with  the  form  of 
religion  he  possessed,  but  always  aspiring  to  some 
higher  form  of  expressing  his  worship  of  the  Deity, 
or  Creator.  What  is  more  natural  than  to  inquire 
into  our  future  state  of  being? 

Trusting  to  the  Spirit  of  Truth  we  shall  endeavor 
to  publish  a book  in  plain,  simple  words,  so  that  any 
one  who  can  read  can  understand,  and  will  be  able 
to  demonstrate  and  prove  for  himself  that  which  no 
other  book  teaches  or  explains ; namely,  how  to  prove 
that  there  is  no  death,  and  that  the  so-called  dead 
are  all  around  and  about  us,  and  will  manifest  them- 
selves to  us  if  we  give  them  an  opportunity. 

The  author  has  not  written  this  book  with  ary 
selfish  motive,  nor  for  his  own  glory;  but  for  the 
glory  and  blessing  of  all  mankind. 


SPIRIT,  SOUL  AND  BODY 

The  body  of  man  is  a beautiful  home, 

The  Spirit  is  the  tenant  therein; 

The  Soul  is  the  work  of  this  tenant  fair, 
The  one  is  three,  and  three  in  one  are  there. 


FOREWORD 


We  wish  to  call  the  reader’s  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  greatest  sceptics  we  have  met  were  those 
who  did  not  take  time  to  read  or  investigate  impar- 
tially that  which  they  condemned  or  were  sceptical 
about.  Had  they  thoroughly  investigated  the  sub- 
ject from  every  viewpoint  they  would  not  have  been 
so  harsh  and  narrow  minded  in  their  judgment. 

We  know  these  people  are  so  constituted  that  they 
cannot  perceive  the  truth,  and  cannot,  or  will  not, 
change  their  opinions  on  certain  subjects,  no  matter 
how  vivid  the  evidence  may  be ; therefore  they  do  not 
believe  what  they  see  and  hear  with  their  own  eyes 
and  ears.  What,  then,  is  the  use  of  trying  to  make 
them  believe  what  we  see  and  hear,  when  they  do 
not  want  to  be  convinced  that  they  are  in  the  wrong, 
no  matter  how  many  times  the  truth  may  be  proved 
to  them?  We  hope  that  the  readers  of  “Soul  Science, 
the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death,”  are  not  in  this  cate- 
gory, but  are  willing  to  listen  and  endeavor  to  assim- 
ilate the  truths  contained  herein  for  their  own 
benefit. 

We  have  not  wrtten  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of 
Life  after  Death”  to  make  any  one  unhappy,  nor  to 
change  the  ways  of  those  who  are  happy  in  their 
beliefs;  but  so  desire  Iv  help  those  who  are  unhappy 
and  lead  them  to  the  light,  by  showing  them  how 
they  can  be  happy  if  willing  to  be,  by  thinking  good 
thoughts,  doing  unto  others  as  they  would  be  done 
by,  leading  clean,  pure  liv  s,  and  trying  to  help 
others  to  do  the  same. 

We  now  leave  it  to  you,  kind  reader,  to  decide 
what  kind  of  life  you  will  live  here  and  hereafter. 


CREED  OF  SOUL  SCIENTISTS 


THE  WORLD 

1.  We  believe  that  the  World  has  always  ex- 
isted and  always  will  exist. 

POWER 

2.  We  believe  and  know  that  there  is  an  Om- 
nipotent Power  which  men  call  God,  and  that 
this  Power  controls  the  World  and  all  things 
therein. 

GOD 

3.  We  believe  and  know  that  God  is  not  an  imag- 
inary Being,  afar  off,  but  He  is  all  around  and 
about  us,  and  within  us,  and  is  just  what  we 
make  Him. 

LIFE 

4.  We  believe  and  know  that  God  is  Life,  and 
that  Life  fills  the  Universe  of  which  we  are 
a part. 

JUST  LAWS 

5.  We  affirm  that  God’s  Laws  are  just  to  all,  and 
unchangeable,  and  so  cannot  be  broken  nor 
changed  by  man. 

HEAVEN 

6.  We  affirm  that  Heaven  is  all  around  and  about 
us,  that  we  are  living  in  it  today  as  well  as 
are  the  dead. 

JUDGMENT 

7.  We  believe  and  know  that  we  shall  be  judged 
in  the  Hereafter  according  to  our  thoughts 
and  deeds  while  in  this  life. 


PUNISHMENT 

8.  We  affirm  that  when  we  attempt  to  violate 
God’s  laws  we  punish  ourselves;  God  does  not 
do  it. 

SUFFERING 

9.  We  believe  and  know  that  we  must  suffer 
either  here  or  in  the  Spirit  World  for  our 
wrong-doings  here. 

BROTHERS  AND  SISTERS 

10.  We  know  that  we  are  all  Brothers  and  Sis- 
ters, and  that  a wrong  done  to  others  is  a 
wrong  done  to  ourselves,  and  a good  conferred 
on  others  is  a good  conferred  on  ourselves. 

THE  SPIRITUAL  BODY 

11.  We  know  that  at  birth  the  Spirit  of  Life  en- 
ters our  material  body,  and  thus  the  Spiritual 
Body  is  born. 

NO  DEATH 

12.  We  know  that  Spirit  is  Life,  and  Life  is  God, 
and  God  can  never  die. 

LIFE  BEYOND 

13.  We  know  that  at  so-called  Death  we  cast  aside 
our  material  body,  and  that  our  Spiritual  body 
continues  its  Life  beyond  the  Grave. 

HERE  AND  NOW 

14.  We  know  that  we  have  spiritual  bodies  and 
eyes  as  well  as  material  bodies  and  eyes,  and 
that  our  spiritual  eyes  are  given  us  to  use,  to 
see  how  to  protect  our  spiritual  bodies.  Here 
and  Now,  and  if  v/e  do  not  use  them  we  are 
robbing  ourselves  of  many  blessings  that  are 
in  store  for  us  here,  and  shall  have  to  pay 
the  penalty  for  it  in  the  Hereafter. 

OUR  SPIRITUAL  EYES 

15.  We  know  that  we  can,  if  we  will,  open  our 
Spiritual  Eyes,  see  Spirits,  and  communicate 
with  them. 


SOUL  SCIENCE 

THE  PROOF  OF  LIFE  AFTER  DEATH 


CHAPTER  I 

WHY  WE  HAVE  WRITTEN  “SOUL  SCIENCE, 
THE  PROOF  OF  LIFE  AFTER  DEATH.” 

We  have  been  impressed  to  write 
this  book.  We  can  hear  voices  around 
calling  us  to  write.  The  heavens  are 
filled  with  them,  telling  us  to  write  a 
book  and  to  call  it  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death,”  and  we  are 
sure  it  will  be  read  all  over  the  world. 
It  will  deliver  the  people  from  ignor- 
ance, bondage  and  superstition,  place 


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them  in  the  right  and  only  true  way  of 
thinking  good  thoughts  and  living  pure 
lives. 

“Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after 
Death,”  will  teach  and  prove  to  the 
world  that  Judgment  comes  to  people 
every  day.  Each  person  is  standing  be- 
fore the  Judgment  Bar  every  day  of  his 
life,  being  judged  according  to  his 
works,  whether  good  or  evil. 

It  will  also  prove  that  there  is  a God, 
who  He  is,  where  to  find  Him,  and 
when  is  the  best  time  to  serve,  or  call 
on.  Him,  day  or  night,  either  in  or  out 
of  trouble.  It  tells  how  you  will,  and 
must,  stay  right  here,  after  so-called 
“death,”  and  how  you  will  be  happy  or 
suffer  here,  now,  or  after  “death.” 

It  also  teaches  that  one  cannot  love 
and  fear  at  the  same  time ; fear  drives 


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out  love.  If  each  person  knew  himself, 
there  would  be  love  for  all. 

We  long  believed  in  a God  and  prayed 
to  that  God,  but  could  not  see  or  get 
light  until  we  listened  to  the  voice  of 
reason,  which  told  us  we  were  in  dark- 
ness, but  that  God  was  even  then  with- 
in us.  Then  we  began  to  investigate, 
and  to  seek  Him  in  prayer.  We  prayed 
for  light  and  knowledge,  and  that  our 
eyes  might  be  opened  to  the  light  of 
Truth,  and  the  way  thereof ; we  prayed 
that  we  might  know  Who  and  where 
God  is,  what  and  where  is  Heaven.  We 
could  hear  voices  while  praying,  but, 
looking  around,  could  see  no  one.  The 
voices  would  say  “Know  Thyself,  and 
thou  wilt  know  Who  and  Where  God  is ; 
know  the  Earth  and  thou  wilt  know 
where  Heaven  is !” 


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We  have  sought,  and  found  that  God 
is  within,  that  Heaven  is  all  around 
about  the  Earth,  and  within  us;  and 
now  that  we  have  found  God  and  know 
where  Heaven  is,  we  want  to  tell  you 
all  about  how  and  where  to  find  Him 
and  Heaven.  We  are  happy  and  con- 
tented, and  want  you  all  to  be  the  same. 
This  is  our  reason  for  writing  this 
book,  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of  Life 
after  Death.” 

The  book  is  filled  throughout  with 
great  spiritual  truths  which  everybody 
should  know,  splendid  inspirational 
thoughts  which  lift  the  mind  to  higher 
ideals  of  life,  and  stimulate  to  nobler 
action.  We  speak  with  authority  born 
of  many  years  of  experience  and  study 
along  these  lines.  Any  one  who  reads 
it  will  know  who,  and  what,  he  is,  and 


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the  mystery  of  his  existence  in  this  life, 
and  in  the  life  hereafter. 

Every  page  contains  words  of  power, 
words  of  deep  spiritual  value,  worthy 
of  daily  consideration.  All  is  told  in 
simple  language,  so  that  whoever  can 
read  can  understand.  Can  any  one  af- 
ford to  neglect  the  knowledge  of  his 
own  soul?  This  book  is  the  answer  to 
many  a question,  and  the  clearance  of 
many  a doubt.  It  is  an  education  in  it- 
self, a guide  to  true  Christian  perfec- 
tion. 

“Soul  Science”  is  everything  that  its 
name  implies,  and  teaches  the  true  re- 
ligious philosophy,  founded  on  a new 
fundamental  basis  which  is  entirely 
different  from  that  of  any  other  sci- 
ence, philosophy  or  religion  with  which 
the  world  is  familiar.  The  author  does 


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not  mention,  or  try  to  prove,  theories. 
He  deals  with  facts.  The  book  will 
prove  to  each  one  what  no  other  book 
does — that  death  and  the  grave  are  not 
the  end  of  our  existence,  but  that  life 
exists  beyond  the  change  called  “death,” 
and  always  will  exist. 

All  students,  young  and  old,  truth- 
seekers,  honest  investigators,  sceptics, 
doubters,  materialists,  agnostics,  athe- 
ists, non-conformists,  deists,  those  who 
are  bereaved  by  (so-called)  death  of 
relatives,  and  all  who  are  in  bondage 
of  superstition  and  traditional  error, 
should  read  this  book;  for  every  word 
bears  the  imprint  of  truth — scientific, 
logical,  reasonable  and  convincing — as 
to  the  teachings  contained  in  “Soul  Sci- 
ence, the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death.” 

This  book  will  help  lift  the  veil  of 


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ignorance  from  in  front  of  man,  and 
cause  the  scales  of  superstition  to  fall 
from  his  eyes,  which  have  prevented 
him  from  seeing  the  light  of  Truth,  and 
which  have  kept  from  him  the  knowl- 
edge of  Who,  what  and  where  is  the  liv- 
ing God.  All  will  agree  that  the  pri- 
mary aspiration  of  the  present  day  is 
toward  educational  truth,  leading  to- 
ward this — a new,  higher  and  better 
religion,  which  is  the  crying  need  of 
the  hour. 

It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  this  is 
one  of  the  greatest  books  ever  written ; 
it  is  clear  and  interesting,  easily  under- 
stood and  applied,  and  should  be  in 
every  home.  You  will  add  to  your  effic- 
iency and  progress  by  the  improve- 
ment that  will  become  evident  after  you 
have  read  it.  Whether  you  are  begin- 


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ning  or  have  advanced  to  some  extent 
along  the  road  of  life,  it  will  be  well 
worth  your  while  to  stop  for  a time  and 
absorb  the  sound  maxims  you  will  find 
in  “Soul  Science;”  they  will  guide  you 
to  that  knowledge  by  teaching  you  how 
to  find  peace,  contentment  and  happi- 
ness in  the  world  in  which  you  live, 
thus  leading  you  to  your  true  goal. 


CHAPTER  II 


PRAYER 

Great  God,  the  Source  of  all  life  and 
the  Ruler  of  all ! We  want  to  do  right; 
help  us  to  understand  Thee!  0,  may 
the  veil  of  ignorance  be  removed  for- 
ever from  our  minds,  and  our  eyes  be 
opened  to  a clear,  spiritual,  sight ; and, 
as  we  read  this  book,  may  we  have  a 
newer  and  better  understanding  than 
ever  before,  of  what  Life  really  is.  May 
it  fill  us  with  inspiration,  power  and 
love  from  the  many  dear  ones  who  have 
gone  before,  into  the  realm  of  the  Spir- 
it, so  that  we  may  know  and  feel  their 
ever-loving  presence  around  us,  helping 
us  all  through  life  to  overcome  our 
many  obstacles,  and  guide  us  all  along 
its  pathway.  These  favors  we  ask  in 
Thy  Name.  Amen. 


CHAPTER  III 


OUR  RELIGION 

The  object  of  writing  “Soul  Science, 
the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death’’  is  to  ex- 
plain and  prove  to  the  world,  if  it  is 
ready  to  accept  this  proof,  that  death 
does  not  end  all,  and  that  life  continues 
after  death.  We  say  we  shall  prove  it, 
if  people  are  ready  to  receive  or  accept 
this  proof.  The  proof  does  not  depend 
upon  us,  but  upon  them;  not  what  we 
do  but  what  they  do. 

Are  you  ready  now  for  a test,  or 
proof?  We  are  all  ready  to  try  it  the 
moment  you  are.  Have  you  been  seek- 
ing proof  of  life  hereafter?  Here  is  a 


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test  for  you,  if  you  want  it, — one  that 
you  will  remember  as  long  as  you  live. 
The  more  you  will  think  about  it  the 
better  and  happier  you  will  be: 

Stand  by  the  side  of  a corpse  and 
look  upon  it ! Is  it  not  the  friend  with 
whom  you  were  on  the  very  best  of 
terms?  Then,  why  do  you  not  talk 
with  him, — you,  who  know  him  so  well? 
There  is  not  now  present  the  smile 
which  it  was  your  wont  to  see,  but  still 
he  lies  there  in  perfect  form ! Feel  his 
body ! Ah,  it  is  cold ! It  is  not  warm, 
as  it  was!  As  you  have  been  standing 
and  looking  down  at  the  corpse,  you 
have  been  thinking  of  all  the  good  he 
has  done,  and  all  the  mean  things  you 
have  ever  done  to  him ; and,  away  down 
deep  in  your  heart,  you  are  asking  him 
to  forgive  you.  Although  the  world  did 


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not  know  anything  about  it,  you  would 
give  the  world,  if  you  had  it  to  give,  had 
you  only  done  right,  but  now  you  real- 
ize that  it  is  too  late ! What  makes  the 
body  cold?  You  cannot  see  that  any- 
thing is  gone,  but  still,  when  you  speak 
to  it,  you  get  no  answer.  It  looks  as 
natural  as  it  ever  did;  still  it  will  not 
speak. 

You  must  admit  that  something 
which  had  control  over  the  body,  and 
caused  it  to  walk  and  stand  and  talk,  is 
not  now  there.  Yet  you  well  know  that 
there  has  been  no  part  taken  from  the 
body  that  would  cause  it  to  lie  in  its 
present  condition.  That  would  be  proof 
enough  for  you.  It  was  proof  enough 
for  me  that  there  had  been  something 
else  within  or  without  the  body  that 
caused  it  to  stand,  walk  and  talk;  and 


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if  it  be  so  with  one  body,  it  is  so  with 
all  bodies,  for  we  know  they  all  do  the 
same,  always  have  done,  and  always 
will  do. 

Therefore,  that  something  must  be 
within  us.  So  we  commenced  to  inves- 
tigate for  ourselves.  We  found  that 
there  is  something  within  us  all,  call  it 
by  what  name  you  choose.  We  will  call 
it  “spirit.”  The  reason  we  call  it 
“spirit”  is  because  it  cannot  be  seen 
with  the  material  or  natural  eyes,  and 
it  can  penetrate  matter — material  sub- 
stance— ^however  thick  it  may  be.  With 
the  X-ray  we  can  see  and  accurately  lo- 
cate broken  bones  and  any  foreign  sub- 
stances in  our  bodies ; this  is  most  won- 
derful; but,  with  the  spiritual  eyes 
people  have  been  told  where  they  should 
dig  or  bore  into  the  bowels  of  the  earth 


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to  find  oil,  coal,  or  other  minerals, 
which  they  did  find,  and  have  thus 
proved  to  the  world  the  existence  of 
spirit  eyes.  So,  if  one  spirit  can  see 
and  describe  oil,  coal  or  other  minerals, 
all  spirits  can  do  so. 

As  we  all  come  into  the  world  the 
same,  we  are  all  alike,  so  far  as  the 
spirits  controlling  our  bodies  or  lives  on 
this  earth-plane  are  concerned.  When 
they  bury  the  body  they  do  not  and  can- 
not bury  the  spirit,  for  that  is  Life,  and 
Life  is  everywhere.  When  the  spirit 
leaves  the  body,  the  body  dies,  but  the 
spirit  lives  on,  and  as  it  leaves  the  body 
it  takes  on  the  spiritual  form  and  cloth- 
ing, and  looks  just  like  what  the  body 
once  did,  but  it  cannot  manifest  itself 
strongly  enough  to  be  seen  with  the  ma- 
terial eyes,  though  it  can  be  seen  and 


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described  accurately  with  the  spirit 
eyes. 

We  were  once  called  to  the  bedside  of 
a dying  friend,  who,  we  knew,  could  see 
spirits  all  around  him.  He  knew  the 
place,  and  what,  and  whom,  he  was  go- 
ing to  see  in  his  spirit-home  in  the 
spirit  world,  when  his  spirit  should 
leave  his  body.  We  sat  by  his  bedside; 
he  called  each  member  of  the  family; 
shook  hands,  and  said  “Good-bye”  to 
each  of  us,  then  closed  his  eyes.  We 
could  see  his  spirit  rise  from  the  body, 
and  take  on  the  spirit  form  and  cloth- 
ing. No  tongue  can  tell,  nor  pen  pic- 
ture, so  beautiful  a sight,  which  we 
shall  remember  as  long  as  we  live.  The 
person  had  led  a good,  clean,  pure  life. 
We  could  see  the  spirits  of  his  dear 
father,  mother  and  many  friends  wait- 


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ing  around  to  welcome  him  into  the 
spirit  world. 

There  is  great  rejoicing  in  our  homes 
here  at  the  birth  of  a child,  and  you  call 
in  your  neighbors  to  welcome  the  babe. 
Just  so,  when  there  is  a death  and  sad- 
ness here,  there  is  birth  and  rejoicing 
among  the  spirits  in  the  spirit-world. 

Many  of  our  friends  in  spirit  life 
have  manifested  themselves  to  us  per- 
sonally in  some  way  or  other;  for  ex- 
ample, one  whom  we  had  not  known  to 
be  dead,  or  had  not  known  where  he 
was  living,  until  he  manifested  and  told 
us.  We  wrote  and  found  it  was  all 
true,  as  he  had  said. 

We  have  had  many  such  manifesta- 
tions. In  fact  there  are  but  few  people 
today  who  have  not  received  some  man- 
ifestation during  their  lives,  either  by 


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day  or  night,  which  proves  to  us  that 
life  continues  after  the  change  called 
“death”,  and  that  God  is  not  far  away, 
nor  a cruel  God,  but  He  is  just  what  we 
make  Him. 

My  Religion — Soul  Science — teaches 
how  to  do  right,  not  wrong;  therefore 
we  can  stand  up  and  look  the  world  in 
the  face,  and  fear  no  man.  My  Religion 
is  a universal  one,  for  all  mankind.  Its 
believers  believe  in  doing  right  unto 
themselves  and  every  one  else,  without 
fear  or  trembling. 


CHAPTER  IV 


THE  CREATION 

This  world  has  always  existed  and 
always  will  exist.  Some  of  our  great- 
est astronomers  tell  us  it  takes  the  light 
from  certain  stars  many  millions  of 
years  to  reach  the  Earth.  They  can- 
not tell  us  how  long  those  stars  have 
been  shining,  nor  how  long  the  world 
has  been  in  existence.  Time  without 
end,  and  Space  without  limit,  are  two 
things  no  human  being  can  possibly 
comprehend. 

There  have  been,  and  always  will  be, 
volcanic  eruptions  and  earthquakes, 
changing  the  Earth’s  surface.  After 


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an  earthquake,  islands  have  often  been 
discovered  near  where  the  catastrophe 
occurred,  or  farther  away — the  land 
going  down  in  one  place  and  rising  in 
another.  This  Earth  is  always  going 
through  changes:  it  never  has  been, 
nor  can  it  be,  destroyed.  If  you  will  dig 
down  into  the  bowels  of  the  Earth  you 
will  go  through  stratum  after  stratum 
and  will  find  signs  of  vegetation,  as 
v/ell  as  of  animals  and  human  beings 
that  existed  many  millions  of  years 
ago;  which  proves  that  the  Earth  al- 
ways exists. 


CHAPTER  V 


GOD 

The  only  God  there  is,  the  God  that 
rules  the  Universe,  is  Spirit,  which  is 
Life,  and  He  fills  all  space.  He  dwells 
within  every  person  and  wherever 
there  is  life.  He  is  the  only  God  there 
is;  nothing  can  live  without  Him,  for 
He  is  the  life  that  is  within  all,  and 
cannot  be  changed  or  made  any  differ- 
ent by  man  to  please  man.  It  does  not 
make  any  difference  what  man  may 
have  been  taught  to  believe,  or  hov/ 
many  persons  may  have  lived,  suffered 
and  died,  man  has  not  changed,  and 
cannot  change,  that  God,  or  life,  or  the 


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lives  that  exist  in  the  world  today. 

All  the  good  or  harm  that  any  one 
may  do  unto  others  or  unto  themselves 
they  only  do  unto  that  God  which  is 
within  themselves,  and  they  are  judged 
by  and  according  to  that  God  within 
them. 

Suppose  there  were  a God  sitting  on 
a throne  in  Heaven,  and  that  this 
throne  were  right  above  Boston,  so  that 
the  people  of  Boston  could  look  up  and 
call  on  that  God  in  prayer.  Suppose 
that  to  be  the  place  to  which  they  would 
have  to  go  after  death  to  get  their  re- 
wards for  the  good  or  evil  deeds  that 
they  did  while  living  in  their  bodies.  If 
God  sits  on  a throne  in  Heaven,  and 
that  throne  and  Heaven  are  right  above 
Boston,  then,  were  the  people  of  Boston 
to  start  on  a journey  around  the  world, 


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who  is  it  that  would  keep  in  motion 
above  them  as  they  travelled  around, 
the  throne  on  which  God  sits,  so  that 
He  would  always  be  above  them,  and  so 
that  they  could  look  up  to  Him,  and 
could  call  on,  and  pray  to.  Him  if  they 
were  in  trouble?  We  all  know  that  the 
earth  is  round,  and  that  if  we  were  to 
look  up  into  Heaven  to  worship  a God 
sitting  on  a throne,  and  that  throne 
were  in  the  Heaven  above  Boston,  then, 
when  they  were  to  go  to  China  that 
throne  and  God  would  have  to  be  just 
opposite  Boston — Heaven,  God  and 
throne ! We  know  that  if  God  is  sitting 
on  a throne  in  Heaven,  that  throne  can- 
not, or  does  not,  move  around.  As  there 
are  people  all  over  the  world  looking  up 
into  Heaven,  worshipping  that  sam.e 
God  at  that  same  hour  on  that  same 


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39 


throne,  how  many  different  Gods  and 
thrones  would  there  have  to  be  for  all 
people  to  look  up  to,  pray  to,  call  on,  and 
worship  ? How  could  it  be  ? 

Again,  we  will  suppose  for  one  min- 
ute that  the  only  Heaven,  God  and 
Throne  (where  God  lives)  were  right 
above  Boston,  and  that  at  death  the 
spirits  of  people  all  over  the  world 
would  be  compelled  to  leave  the  body, 
and  would  have  to  fly  from  China  and 
everywhere  else  to  the  Heaven  and  God 
above  Boston,  to  be  judged,  (rewarded 
or  punished),  according  to  the  degree 
of  good  or  evil  that  they  have  done 
while  living  in  their  bodies. 

Suppose  that  a person  had  been  very 
wicked  while  living,  and  that  at  death, 
just  as  soon  as  his  spirit  were  to  leave 
its  body,  it  would  meet  another  spirit 


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which  had  led  an  equally  wicked  life, 
and  the  first  spirit  were  to  tell  the  sec- 
ond how  far  it  (the  first  spirit)  had 
had  to  fly  to  reach  Heaven,  and  all  the 
trouble  it  had  had,  to  find  its  way,  and 
how  it  was  punished,  and  had  to  suffer, 
after  getting  there,  for  the  wrongdo- 
ings done  while  living  in  its  body,  and 
suppose  the  last  spirit  were  to  say  to 
the  first  that  it  could  not,  and  would 
not,  fly  so  far,  and  would  not  go  to 
Heaven  and  there  suffer,  as  had  been 
described.  Who  could  compel  it  to  fly 
so  far  to  reach  there,  and  be  punished 
for  all  the  wickedness  done  while  liv- 
ing? 

God’s  laws  are  just  at  all  times,  and 
when  we  try  to  violate  them  we  com- 
mence to  suffer  then  and  there  for  our 
transgressions.  Prayer  or  no  prayer. 


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41 


we  cannot  and  will  not  be  saved  from 
suffering  when  we  do  wrong. 

How  could  a God  be  a just  God  that 
could  be  changed  by  prayer  today,  (in- 
asmuch as  thousands  of  thousands  of 
years  ago  He  made  laws  to  rule  the 
world  and  all  things  therein  for  all  time 
to  come,)  just  because  somebody  is  in 
trouble  today  and  calls  on  Him  after 
having  tried  to  violate  His  immutable 
laws?  How  could  men  get  justice  if 
there  were  such  a God? 

The  only  God  there  is  is  Spirit,  or 
Life,  and  that  God  dwells  in  us,  and  He 
is  the  only  God  that  could  or  ever  will 
judge  us  aright : and  when  you  pray  to 
God,  or  whatever  you  do,  you  pray  and 
do  it  unto  that  God  which  is  within  you. 
He  is  the  only  God  there  is  for  you,  and 


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you  are  making  Him  just  what  He  is 
today. 

God  is  not  a personal  being,  who  sits 
on  an  imaginary  throne  away  up  in 
Heaven,  ruling  the  Universe  from  on 
High.  God  is  a name  given  to  the  all- 
ruling Spirit  of  all  that  is,  was,  and  is 
to  be.  The  word  “God”  is  a name 
coined  in  the  English  language  to  dis- 
tinguish one  of  whom  we  speak,  in  the 
same  manner  as  we  give  a name  to  a 
child. 

God  not  being  a personal  being, 
therefore  He  never  has  written,  and 
never  will  write,  a book  or  books  to  tell 
people  about  His  work  or  works  in 
Heaven  or  on  Earth.  God  never 
changes  time,  nor  counts  the  years,  nor 
names  the  days  in  the  weeks,  months  or 
1 years.  Neither  does  He  say  that  we 


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43 


shall  worship  Him  any  more  on  one  day 
than  on  another,  for  all  days  are  God’s 
days,  and  He  knows  it,  and  we  should 
serve  Him  for  good  at  all  times. 

God  is  life,  and  life  is  God,  and 
wherever  there  is  God  there  is  life.  God 
has  always  existed  and  always  will  ex- 
ist. God  is  all  around  and  about  us.  He 
is  the  life  that  is  within  us,  and  is  all- 
powerful.  There  is  but  one  God,  and 
that  is  Life.  We  are  a part  of  God,  and 
God  is  a part  of  us.  God  is  just  what  we 
make  Him.  He  knows  no  creed,  race  nor 
color,  neither  monarch,  king  nor  ruler. 
He  judges  every  person  according  to  the 
thoughts,  acts  and  deeds  of  such  person. 
God’s  laws  are  unchangeable,  cannot 
be  broken,  and  if  we  attempt  to  violate 
His  laws,  which  are  Nature’s  laws,  we 
must  pay  the  penalty.  God  is  every- 


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where,  in  and  on  the  earth,  and  in  the 
Heavens,  in  the  trees,  grasses,  flowers, 
and  in  every  living  thing.  He  fills  the 
Universe  and  exists  in  everything,  for 
everything  has  life. 

God  does  not  rule  the  Universe  from 
an  imaginary  throne,  looking  down  on 
poor  mortals  and  causing  them  to  suf- 
fer, regardless  of  the  number  of  lives 
they  may  have  saved  or  the  good  they 
may  have  done  during  their  lifetime, 
and  then,  at  death,  leave  them  in  a posi- 
tion to  suffer  as  long  as  time  lasts  be- 
cause they  did  not  believe  the  teachings 
of  men  to  the  effect  that  man  can  for- 
give their  sins  after  they  have  attempt- 
ed to  violate  God’s  laws. 

God’s  ways  are  not  man’s  ways.  God 
does  not  create  a spirit  in  some  special 
place  away  up  in  Heaven  and  then  send 


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45 


it  down  to  earth  to  enter  some  new-born 
babe,  to  live  a certain  life  and  meet  a 
certain  fate,  and  then,  after  death, 
damn  it  and  send  it  to  Hell,  to  suffer  for 
ever  and  ever,  merely  because  a certain 
man  and  woman,  thousands  of  thou- 
sands of  years  ago  may  have  broken  a 
commandment  and  paid  the  penalty. 
Nor  does  He,  even  if  there  were  a 
breach  of  a supposititious  command- 
ment, cause  all  mankind  to  be  born  in 
sin  and  death,  and  banished  from  His 
presence  forever.  Nor  does  He  con- 
demn us  all  for  all  eternity  if  we  do  not 
believe  in  a certain  man  who  was  born 
of  woman  begat  by  man,  who  has  lived 
and  died.  Nor  does  He  say  that  all  we 
have  to  do  is  to  repent  for  something 
we  did  not  do,  or  did  not  have  any  con- 
trol over,  or  to  repent  at  the  eleventh 


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hour,  and  that  if  we  believe  that  man 
can  forgive  sin,  no  matter  what  we 
have  done  in  the  past,  all  will  be  for- 
given without  suffering,  and  we  shall 
be  saved!  Believing  in  any  one,  after 
a person  has  done  wrong,  will  never 
right  that  wrong,  nor  pay  the  penalty 
for  the  wrong,  in  this  world,  or  in  the 
world  hereafter. 

No  one  ever  saw  a child  born  a mur- 
derer or  a thief.  We  are  just  what  we 
have  been  taught  or  have  allowed  our- 
selves to  think  or  become. 

I God  never  damns  nor  sends  any  one 
to  so-called  Hell.  We  do  that  ourselves, 
for  we  are  the  only  ones  who  can  damn 
ourselves:  and  we  do  damn  ourselves 
when  we  do  wrong.  When  we  suffer 
for  that  wrong,  that  is  Hell.  God  did 
not  send  us  there,  nor  make  us  do  the 


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47 


wrong : we  did  it  ourselves,  and  thus  we 
must  pay  for  our  wrong-doing,  by  suf- 
fering— which  suffering  is  Hell. 

The  fundamental  truths  of  “Soul 
Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death,” 
are  scientific  rather  than  religious,  be- 
cause based  upon  what  is  actually 
known.  It  is  better  to  know  a truth 
than  to  believe  an  error,  no  matter  how 
sanctified  is  the  error  held  up  for  some 
one  to  worship.  The  persistent  popu-  ! 
lar  conception  that,  in  order  to  be  ! 
saved,  it  was  necessary  to  sacrifice  hu- 
m.an  blood,  is  a gross  error.  “Soul  Sci-  ’ 
ence”  has  come  into  the  world  to  do 
away  with  such  a barbaric  conception. 
We  are  not  bound  and  tethered  to  a 
one-man  idea  of  God,  and  so  we — the 
believers  in  “Soul  Science” — are  the 
m.ost  religious  people  on  earth,  because 


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of  the  genuine  desire  we  have  to  know 
the  truth.  The  true  Bible  is  Nature, 
and  he  who  reads  a Bible  written  by 
the  ever-living  God  studies  Nature. 

“To  know  God  is  to  know  thyself.” 
This  should  be  the  aim  of  all  branches 
of  culture,  and  of  Educational  Bureaus 
and  Colleges  throughout  the  world,  thus 
creating  one  true  religion  or  standard 
for  all  mankind,  which  will  enable  each 
one  to  see  the  light,  the  right  road  to 
happiness,  v/hile  in  this  mundane 
sphere  of  existence.  Now  is  the  time 
for  every  living  mortal  to  know  what 
his  birth-right  is.  Every  human  being 
born  into  this  world  has  powers  lying 
dormant  within  him.  All  schools  of 
learning  should  teach  how  to  use  those 
powers  within,  which,  for  lack  of  prop- 
er education,  and  by  the  ignorance  and 


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49 


superstition  of  many  centuries,  are  hid- 
den. 

Believing  in  the  Why,  How,  When, 
Where  or  Whom,  God  is,  or  whom  He 
has  sent  into  the  world,  will  never  make 
us  any  happier  after  death.  We  _are 
our  own  God,  and  face  the  judgment 
bar  of  our  deeds  every  time  we  do  good 
or  evil. 

God  is  not  a person,  who  travels  all 
over  the  Earth  performing  miracles  in 
order  to  make  people  believe  in  Him: 
neither  does  He  teach  people  how  to 
perform  miracles  to  prove  His  words. 
His  works,  or  His  power.  What  is 
called  a miracle  would  be  a violation  of 
the  laws  of  .Nature,  which  are  God’s 
laws.  A miracle  is  supposed  to  be  a 
supernatural  event,  when  in  reality  the 
thing  supposed  to  be  such  is  according 


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to  the  simplest  laws  of  Nature,  al- 
though through  the  ignorance  of  man 
in  not  understanding  those  laws,  it  ap- 
pears a marvel. 

The  native  of  the  equatorial  coun- 
tries thinks  it  a miracle  when  you  tell 
him  that  in  the  North,  in  the  winter 
season,  the  surface  of  the  water  hard- 
ens so  that  men,  and  even  horses,  can 
walk  upon  it.  Apply  warmth  to  an  egg, 
and  in  a cei^in  number  of  days  you 
produce  a living  chick.  Take  a pot  of 
earth,  weigh  it,  plant  a seed,  the  seed 
sprouts,  the  plant  grows : and  when  the 
plant  matures,  if  you  cut  it  down,  and 
weigh  your  pot  of  earth,  you  find  there 
is  no  loss;  it  weighs  the  same.  Many 
similar  wonders  can  be  produced  in  the 
same  way,  but  they  seem  so  miraculous 
that  it  is  hard  for  some  people  to  un- 


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51 


^rstand  and  believe  in  them.  Yet  they 
are  all  natural ; in  fact  God  does  not  do 
anything  unnatural,  nor  perform  mir- 
acles, and  if  we  are  ignorant  of  His 
laws,  and  do  not  understand  them,  it  is 
not  His  fault  but  ours,  for  not  learning 
and  understanding  His  laws. 


CHAPTER  VI 


CREATION  OF  MAN 

Man  does  not  know,  and  cannot  tell, 
how  and  when  he  came  into  the  world. 
He  is  as  old  as  the  world,  has  always 
existed,  and  always  will  exist.  He  may 
change  his  color,  his  looks,  and  the 
shape  and  size  of  his  body,  by  his  study 
and  development,  but  he  cannot  add  to, 
nor  subtract  from,  any  bones  of  his 
anatomy  that  would  cause  his  coming 
generation  to  have  more,  or  less,  bones 
in  their  bodies  than  he  had  when  he  was 
born.  Our  forefathers  had  just  a cer- 
tain number  of  bones  in  their  anatomy, 
therefore  we  must  have  the  same  num- 


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53 


ber  in  ours.  All  the  theories  and  beliefs 
in  the  world  will  never  increase  nor  di- 
minish the  number  of  bones  in  our  bod- 
ily structure. 

If  one  man  is  born  into  this  world  a 
certain  way,  all  men  must  be  born  the 
same  way.  We  are  all  created  alike. 
We  came  forth  from  God  and  we  will 
return  to  Him.  Our  parents  gave  birth 
to  us ; then  the  spirit  entered  the  body 
and  we  became  like  unto  God.  The 
spirit  causes  all  the  organs  to  function 
while  in  the  mortal  form,  and  at  death 
we  must  return  to  our  God,  the  Cre- 
ator of  all. 


CHAPTER  VII 


BIRTH 

No  human  being  can  give  birth  to  a 
spirit.  All  our  parents  did  was  to  gen- 
erate our  material  bodies,  just  as  the 
builder  furnishes  the  material  and 
builds  the  house,  to  fulfil  his  contract; 
he  cannot  tenant  it  with  the  same  mate- 
rial with  which  he  built  it.  The  house 
has  windows,  doors,  plumbing;  it  is  fin- 
ished with  all  modern  improvements, 
all  ready  to  be  occupied ; yet  he  cannot 
tenant  it.  Just  so  with  our  parents. 
They  fulfilled  their  contract  when  they 
furnished  the  material,  and  built  our 
bodies,  which  they  gave  to  the  world. 


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55 


We  compared  our  bodies  before  birth 
to  a growing  tumor  which  is  attached 
to  the  body,  and  on  which  it  lives  and 
grows,  and  from  which  it  draws  its  life. 
It  has  no  life  of  its  own,  but  it  grows, 
and  after  an  operation  is  performed 
and  the  tumor  removed,  the  patient 
lives.  Just  so  with  our  body;  it  grows 
and  lives  where  it  is  connected  with 
our  mother.  Through  the  pulsation  of 
the  mother,  her  body  and  ours  live  as 
one  and  the  same,  until  birth.  Then 
our  body  is  complete,  and  ready  for  the 
spirit  to  occupy. 

No  one  can,  or  will,  live  in  a house 
until  it  is  completed,  neither  can,  nor 
will,  any  spirit  live  in  the  body  until  it 
is  complete,  and  that  is  at  birth.  The 
moment  our  body  comes  into  the  world, 
the  spirit  of  life  enters  into  it,  and  it 


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becomes  a living  mortal,  which  it  could 
not  be  until  it  was  perfect  and  strong, 
for  all  the  organs  of  the  body  to  func- 
tion properly. 

Then  our  mother  must  watch  and 
nourish  our  little  bodies.  After  we 
have  grown  older  and  stronger  we  may 
notice  marks  on  our  body  that  we  do  not 
see  on  any  other  member  of  our  fam- 
ily; we  may  crave  certain  kinds  of 
fruit,  vegetables  or  meats  which  we 
must  have  or  we  will  be  sick ; or  it  may 
be  that  those  foods  and  fruits  which 
others  eat  may  cause  us  to  become  ill. 
Your  system  may  call  for  certain  food, 
and  your  not  being  able  to  eat  and  sup- 
ply a certain  acid  to  your  stomach  may 
cause  you  to  become  ill.  If,  before  your 
birth,  your  mother  craved  certain  kinds 
of  fruit,  vegetables  or  meats,  and  did 


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not,  or  could  not,  get  them,  you  will 
crave  them,  but  if  she  got  and  ate  what 
she  wanted,  you  will  be  able  to  eat  the 
same.  If  she  craved  and  ate  too  much 
of  them  and  they  made  her  sick,  you 
will  not  care  to  eat  them  yourself. 

Mothers,  by  seeing  certain  things,  or 
thinking  certain  thoughts,  which  shock 
their  entire  body  while  in  that  condi- 
tion, often  mark  their  unborn  children, 
causing  them  to  be  deformed,  and  to 
suffer  as  long  as  they  live.  That  our 
mother  craved  anything  she  wanted  to 
eat  but  could  not  get,  is  no  reason  why 
we,  craving  the  same  thing,  should  eat 
too  much,  or  become  sick.  Let  us  use 
reason  at  all  times.  If  we  are  weak  and 
crave  anything,  we  should  endeavor  to 
develop  our  innate  strength,  and  con- 
trol our  weak  points. 


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No  woman,  while  in  that  condition, 
should  go  where  there  is  any  excite- 
ment, or  look  at  anything  that  is  likely 
to  give  her  a shock.  She  should  think 
only  the  purest  thoughts,  and  lead  a 
clean,  pure  life.  In  that  way  she  will 
help  her  coming  generation  to  bless  the 
world. 


CHAPTER  VIII 


THE  MATERIAL  BODY 

Our  bodies  are  like  a piano.  When 
the  piano  was  manufactured,  the  man- 
ufacturer did  not  say  to  it,  “You  must 
not  allow  every  person  to  play  on  you. 
You  will  be  in  a public  place,  where 
every  one  that  comes  along  will  want 
to  play  on  you.  Some  will  not  ^ know 
how  to  play,  and  some  will  strike  your 
keyboard  so  hard  that  it  would  destroy 
you,  so  that  you  would  not  be  able  to 
produce  the  sweet  and  lovely  music 
that  is  within  you ; but  if  you  will  take 
good  care  of  yourself,  you  will  last  a 
long  time,  and  make  happy  those  who 
can  play  on  you.” 


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All  our  parents  did  in  bringing  us 
into  this  world  was  to  give  birth  to  our 
material  bodies.  They  could  not  say 
to  our  body,  no  matter  how  dearly  they 
may  have  loved  it,  “Do  not  allow  every 
spirit  that  comes  along  to  take  control 
of,  or  impress,  you  and  cause  you  to  say 
or  do  things  just  the  way  that  spirit 
may  want  to;  for  if  you  do,  you  will 
soon  be  worn  out,  and  your  body  will 
not  be  fit  for  any  good  spirit  to  use,  to 
speak  through  your  organs  the  mes- 
sages of  love.” 

When  our  body  came  into  this  world, 
it  was  material,  and  will  exist  in  the 
material  form  as  long  as  the  spirit  of 
life  is  within  it.  The  spirit  keeps  the 
body  alive.  When  the  spirit  leaves  the 
body,  the  body  returns  to  earth,  the 
mother  of  all  material  things.  No  ma- 


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terial  beings  can  give  birth  to  spirits, 
because  they  have  not  that  power,  or 
the  spirit  within  them  to  transmit  to 
another.  If  we  were  to  give  our  life 
away,  so-called  “Death”  would  take 
place,  and  they  would  have  to  bury  our 
body. 

Our  body,  which  is  material,  cannot 
of  itself,  speak  a word,  any  more  than 
a piano  which  is  also  material,  can 
speak.  Why  is  not  the  piano  playing 
all  the  time?  Because  the  spirit  is  not 
there.  Who  is  the  spirit  of  the  piano? 
Whoever  fingers  the  keys  of  that  piano 
is  the  spirit  of  it.  Our  body  only  speaks 
as  the  spirit  impresses  or  shows  it 
things.  With  that  same  spirit  we  may 
see  spirits  or  hear  spirit  voices,  feel, 
sense,  or  receive  impressions  from 
them,  anywhere,  day  or  night. 


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When  death  takes  place,  they  bury 
the  body.  If  it  were  the  body  that 
spoke,  they  would  never  bury  it.  Look 
at  a corpse.  There  it  lies,  just  as  nat- 
ural as  life.  Why  doesn’t  it  speak? 
Why  is  it  not  Mr.  or  Mrs.  So-and-So? 
Because  the  spirit  has  left  the  body! 
Thus  it  is  the  spirit  that  causes  the 
body  to  speak.  It  is  the  spirit,  mani- 
festing itself  through  the  brain  and  vo- 
cal organs  of  the  person. 


CHAPTER  IX 


MATERIAL  AND  SPIRITUAL' BODY 

Every  person  is  born  into  this  world 
with  a material  body.  At  birth,  spirit 
enters  into  the  material  body,  and  be- 
comes a perfect  human  being.  The  ma- 
terial body  is  merely  a house,  or  work- 
shop, in  which  the  spirit  works.  The 
body  could  neither  grow,  stand,  walk, 
nor  talk,  nor  could  its  organs  function, 
if  it  v/ere  not  for  the  spirit,  which 
causes  it  to  act  and  move ; by  the  spirit 
manipulating  the  brain  cells  and  other 
parts,  the  body  thinks  and  acts. 

The  spirit  has  absolute  control  over 
the  body,  and  can  leave  it  at  will,  or 


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it  can  allow  other  spirits  to  enter, 
which  may  use  the  vocal  organs  to 
speak  even  in  unknown  tongues.  The 
person,  when  speaking,  may  not  know 
the  language  he  is  speaking,  nor  be 
able  to  interpret  it. 

If  the  spiritual  cord  which  connects 
the  body  with  the  spirit  is  severed,  the 
body  dies.  One  spirit  may  enter  and 
control  the  body  for  a few  seconds  or 
minutes,  sometimes  for  hours,  days, 
weeks,  months  or  even  years ; then 
leave  the  body  and  never  return  to  it. 
That  spirit  had  a mission  to  perform, 
and  by  entering  the  body,  and  over- 
powering the  original  spirit,  and  con- 
trolling it,  could  accomplish  its  mis- 
sion ; then  that  spirit  after  leaving  the 
body,  will  go  on  until  it  can  find  some 
other  body  of  which  it  can  take  con- 


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trol,  to  continue  the  work  which  it 
did,  or  wanted  to  do,  or  should  have 
done,  while  in  its  own  body. 

When  one  spirit  leaves  the  body, 
another  may  enter,  and  so  on  until  the 
spiritual  cord  is  broken.  Whatever 
persons  think,  that  is  what  they  talk 
about,  and  that  kind  of  spirit  has  con- 
trol of  them.  As  they  can  only  think 
one  thought,  and  speak  one  word,  at  a 
time,  only  one  spirit  can  control  a per- 
son at  one  time,  even  though  one  spirit 
may  have  control  one  minute,  and  an- 
other the  next. 

When  the  spirit  that  takes  posses- 
sion of  our  bodies,  comes  and  goes,  it 
often  causes  lines  or  may  even  change 
our  appearance ; for  when  you  are  cry- 
ing, the  spirit  of  a person  who  used  to 
cry,  while  living,  has  possession  of 


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you,  and  causes  you  to  do  what  he  did ; 
similarly,  when  you  are  laughing,  or 
whatever  you  are  doing.  When  you 
are  crying  the  wrinkles  in  your  face 
are  different  from  those  that  appear 
when  you  are  laughing.  When  one  is 
angry,  he  is  angry  all  over,  from  the 
crown  of  his  head  to  the  soles  of  his 
feet.  He  feels  like  kicking,  biting,  or 
striking,  all  at  the  same  time.  An 
angry  spirit  has  possession  of  him,  and 
that  is  what  he  is  at  the  time.  When  a 
person  is  drunk,  a drunken  spirit  has 
control  of  him,  and  causes  him  to  be  as 
that  spirit  was,  while  living  here. 

It  is  just  so  with  whatever  a person 
may  be  doing;  whatever  trade  or  pro- 
fession he  may  be  working  or  engaged 
in,  there  are  spirits  that  did  v/ork,  or 
wanted  to  work  at  that  same  trade  or 


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profession,  who  are  trying  to  impress 
that  person  to  do  as  they  did  while  liv- 
ing. 

All  persons  should  know  themselves, 
and  not  allow  every  kind  of  spirit  to  en- 
ter and  take  possession  of  them,  just 
because  those  spirits  wish  to  progress 
out  of  certain  conditions.  It  is  true, 
every  time  a person  takes  on  a condi- 
tion, or  allows  the  spirit  to  take  control 
of,  or  impress,  him  to  do  as  it  wants,  it 
helps  that  spirit  to  progress  out  of  that 
condition,  but  no  person  should  allow 
another  person,  or  spirit,  to  impress  or 
take  control  of  his  body  v/ithout  his 
consent,  if  it  will  injure  him  or  his  spir- 
it in  any  way — merely  to  please  an- 
other spirit  or  person. 

V/e  do  not  blame  spirits  for  asking, 
or  trying  to  impress,  people  to  do  as 


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they  once  did  while  living,  but  we  do 
blame  people  for  not  seeing  the  spirits 
which  are  around  them,  when  their 
spiritual  eyes  have  been  given  them 
for  that  purpose,  and  they  do  not  use 
them. 

Every  person  should  be  able  to  see 
spirits  with  his  spirit  eyes  at  any  and 
all  times,  without  losing  his  own  indi- 
viduality. It  is  not  necessary  for  a per- 
son to  lose  his  personality,  in  order  to 
see  and  com.municate  with  spirits. 

It  is  the  duty  of  all  to  develop  and 
open  their  spiritual  eyes,  that  they  may 
see  spiritual  things,  as  well  as  material 
things,  that  are  all  about  them  every- 
where, no  matter  where  they  m.ay  go  or 
what  they  may  do.  We  cannot  rid  our- 
selves of  them,  or  get  away  from  them, 
for  v/herever  there  is  life,  there  are 
spirits. 


CHAPTER  X 


WE  MUST  BE  BORN  AGAIN 

We  are  born  with  a material,  then  a 
spiritual,  body.  First  we  are  born 
with  a material  body;  then  the  spirit 
enters  into  it,  and  it  becomes  a living 
body.  The  first  time  the  spirit  of  life 
entered  our  material  bodies  we  were 
born,  and,  each  time  a spirit  takes  con- 
trol of  us,  we  are  born  again.  How, 
and  where,  do  we  get  those  thoughts  we 
are  thinking?  Is  there  some  machine 
in  the  back  of  the  head,  or  any  other 
part  of  the  body,  grinding  them  out, 
and  giving  or  feeding  them  to  the 
brain?  The  brain  is  matter  which  could  J 


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not  exist  of  itself  or  speak  a word  with- 
out the  spirit;  so  every  thought  that 
impresses  the  brain  must  be  alive. 
There  is  no  such  thing  as  dead  spirits 
or  dead  thoughts. 

Every  time  a spirit  or  thought — 
(call  it  by  what  name  you  choose,  it  is 
life,  and  life  is  everywhere) — takes 
possession  of  us,  we  are  being  born 
again.  All  these  millions  and  billions 
of  people  who  have  lived  on  this  Earth, 
and  v/hose  thoughts  and  spirits  are  still 
alive  and  among  us,  and  those  who  are 
now  living  in  the  material  body,  are 
thinking  and  sending  out  thoughts  and 
conditions  which,  in  turn,  take  control 
of  others,  who  then  are  being  born 
again. 

When  a person  does  something  one 
minute,  and  is  sorry  for  it  the  next,  and 


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does  not  know  what  caused  him  to  do 
such  a thing,  when  it  was  contrary  to 
his  will,  or  way  of  living  or  thinking, 
a spirit  has  come  in,  and  over-powered, 
and  taken  control  of,  his  spirit,  causing 
him  to  do  just  the  way  the  spirit  did. 
That  was  the  first  time  he  ever  did  such 
a thing ; thus  he  was  born  again  with  a 
new  spirit.  That  same  person  can,  if 
he  wishes,  call  on  a good  spirit  to  come 
in  and  impress,  or  take  control  of,  his 
own  spirit,  which  will  cause  him  to  say 
and  do  something  good ; thus  he  is  born 
again. 

There  are  two  facts  in  this  world: 
Spirit  and  Matter.  Destroy  Matter 
and  Spirit  remains.  Matter  cannot  live 
without  Spirit,  but  Spirit  can  live  with- 
out matter.  You  may  destroy  matter 
but  there  is  no  power  that  can  kill  or 


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destroy  spirit,  for  spirit  is  life,  and  life 
is  God,  and  God,  or  Life,  has  always  ex- 
isted, and  always  will  exist.  So  we  are 
a part  of  God  which  rules  and  governs 
the  spirit  world. 

Each  one  of  these  spirits  who  were 
human  on  the  earth-plane  had  its  own 
characteristics  and  habits,  either  good 
or  evil,  and  that  spirit  is  now  what- 
ever it  was  then.  As  spirits  have  the 
power  of  impressing  mortals  with  these 
same  characteristics,  they  are  the  cause 
of  mortals  doing  and  thinking  just  as 
they,  the  spirits,  did  while  they  were 
living  in  the  body,  and  thus  these  mor- 
tals are  born  again. 

Then  asain,  as  a person  thinks,  so 
he  attracts  just  that  kind  of  spirits  to 
him,  and  is  influenced  either  for  good 
or  evil,  and  so  is  born  again.  Thus  these 


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spirits  take  control  of  the  bodies  of 
mortals,  and  are  rulers  of  those  bodies. 
As  we  think,  and  as  our  thoughts  at- 
tract to  us  certain  spirits,  they  take 
possession  of  our  bodies  and  use  us  for  1 
their  own  purposes,  and  thus  we  are 
horn  again.  i 

But  we  can  choose  the  kind  of  spirit 
that  we  wish  to  rule  or  guide  us,  to 
make  either  a Heaven  or  a Hell  for  our- 
selves or  others.  You  have  chosen  your 
Ruler.  He  is  your  God,  and  He  judges 
you  according  to  your  thoughts,  acts, 
and  deeds.  He  is  a just  God,  and  the 
only  God  that  can,  and  will,  judge  you 
rightfully,  as  you  stand  each  day  before 
the  judgment  throne,  and  know  you  are 
getting  that  which  belongs  to  you ; you 
cannot,  and  will  not,  get  anything  else 
but  what  belongs  to  you.  If  you  did, 


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you  would  be  robbing  someone  of  his 
reward,  which  you  cannot  do  before 
your  Judge  and  your  God.  Go  wher- 
ever you  may,  you  cannot  hide  from 
Him,  for  He  is  within  you,  and  so  you 
must  be  born  again. 


CHAPTER  XI 


SPIRIT 

Every  person  can  see  spirits  and  ma- 
terial things  with  the  spiritual  eyes, 
but  does  not  give  his  spirit  the  credit 
for  it.  Every  patent  that  was  ever  in- 
vented was  seen  with  the  spiritual  eyes 
before  it  was  worked  out  with  the 
hands.  Whenever  any  one  starts  any- 
thing he  sees  with  his  spiritual  eyes 
what  there  is  to  be  done,  and,  before 
he  has  commenced  work  on  it,  can  de- 
scribe and  tell  just  how  it  will  look. 
The  farmer  can  see,  describe  and  tell 
all  about  his  crops  before  they  are 
planted.  The  architect  and  carpenter 


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can  describe  a house,  and,  before  they 
build  it,  can  show  you  how  it  will  look. 
The  storekeeper  can  tell  what  his  store 
windows  will  look  like,  before  he  has 
placed  any  goods  in  them ; and  the  mil- 
liner and  dressmaker  can  see  and  de- 
scribe just  how  a certain  hat  or  dress 
will  look  on  you  before  showing  it.  They 
all  see  with  their  spiritual  eyes,  but  do 
not  give  their  spiritual  eyes  the  credit 
for  it. 

Or  it  may  be  that  a person  will  read 
about  a collision  of  two  trains  which 
are  many  miles  away,  can  almost  hear 
the  crash  as  they  collide,  and  can  spirit- 
ually see  the  destruction  and  death  of 
the  people  aboard,  as  the  trains  meet, 
can  see  the  people  crawling  from  them ; 
can  see  the  wreck  burning,  and  people 
trying  to  extinguish  the  fire.  They  see 


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it  with  their  spiritual  eyes,  just  as 
though  they  were  there,  yet  are  uncon- 
scious of  the  fact.  Everything  that  we 
read  is  pictured  before  us,  and  we  see 
it  with  our  spirit  eyes,  just  as 
though  we  were  standing  before  it  and 
were  looking  at  it  with  our  material 
eyes;  thus  we  read  it  with  the  spirit 
eyes  as  it  is  pictured  to  us. 

We  have  material  and  spiritual  bod- 
ies. Material  and  spiritual  eyes  are 
given  to  us  to  see  material  and  spiritual 
things,  and  to  see  how  to  protect  our 
material  and  spiritual  bodies.  Our 
spiritual  bodies  need  protection,  and 
should  be  protected,  as  well  as  our  ma- 
terial bodies. 

We  all  have  spiritual  eyes,  which 
should  be  developed,  so  that  we  may  use 
them  to  see  how  to  protect  our  spiritual 


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bodies.  God,  or  Spirit, — call  Him  or  It 
by  what  name  you  choose — ^has  no  fav- 
orites. He  has  given  all  of  us  these 
eyes  to  use,  and  if  we  do  not  use  them 
we  are  robbing  ourselves  of  blessings 
that  are  ours ; we  are  blinded  to  truth, 
and  are  hindering  our  spiritual  unfold- 
ment  and  progression  here  and  in  the 
spirit  world!  The  only  way  we  can, 
or  ever  will,  progress,  or  unfold  our 
spirtiual  selves,  is  by  using  the  spirit 
that  is  within  us ; so,  when  we  say  and 
take  for  granted  that  believing  is  all 
that  is  required  of  us,  we  are  only  de- 
ceiving  ourselves. 

It  is  your  works  that  will  save  you, 
not  what  you  believe.  By  your  fruits 
shall  you  be  known. 

For  years  the  author  has  been  able  to 
see,  spiritually,  animals  and  human 


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forms,  some  of  which  were  around  peo- 
ple. Some  looked  as  if  they  were  going 
on  errands,  carrying  something,  others 
seemed  to  be  traveling.  We  could  see 
some  of  them  in  a form  of  light,  others 
more  like  shadows;  the  mists  or  shad- 
ows were  not  all  the  same  tint  or  shade ; 
we  did  not  know  that  these  mists  or 
shadows  were  disembodied  mortals 
trying  to  manifest  themselves  to  us  in 
that  way.  We  were  not  taught  to  be- 
lieve in  such  things,  and  knew  nothing 
about  spirits.  We  paid  no  attention  to 
them,  thinking  everyone  could  see  them 
the  same  as  we. 

We  also  saw  various  forms  of  ani- 
mals different  from  any  we  had  ever 
seen  alive,  going  to  and  fro,  walking  or 
crawling  on  the  earth.  This  went  on 
until  we  commenced  to  investigate  for 


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ourselves  by  welcoming  and  speaking 
to  the  mists,  shadows  and  forms  as 
though  they  were  human  beings. 

Finally,  now  and  then,  some  spirit 
form  of  a human  being  would  come  so 
close  that  we  could  see  its  lips  move 
and  hear  them  speak;  and  sometimes 
when  we  would  go  to  speak  to  or  call 
on  a friend,  a form  would  manifest  it- 
self, of  someone  who  had  been  dead 
probably  for  a number  of  years,  whom 
we  would  describe  to  the  person  we 
were  talking  to,  explaining  how  and 
why  the  spirit  was  around  him,  and  in 
nine  out  of  ten  cases,  the  person  would 
recognize  the  spirit  and  message  at 
once,  seeming  to  give  the  spirit  great 
pleasure  and  satisfaction ; and  we 
found  that  every  time  a spirit  mani- 
fested itself  and  was  described  and  rec- 


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ognized,  it  gained  in  strength,  and  it 
was  easier  for  it  to  manifest  again; 
so  that  every  time  that  we  saw  it  and 
spoke  to  it,  it  would  come  closer  to  us. 

Now  we  can  see  spirits  all  around  us 
and  around  everyone  else,  with  our 
spiritual  eyes,  and  think  no  more  of 
talking  to  and  with  the  spirits  than  we 
do  with  mortal  friends.  They  look  and 
are  as  natural  in  spirit  life  as  they 
were  in  mortal  life.  We  love  to  talk 
to  them,  and  have  them  around  us; 
equally  do  they  love  to  talk  to,  and  be 
with,  us.  It  is  a great  blessing,  to  see 
and  know  that  our  dear  loved  ones  in 
spirit  are  around  us  watching  over  us, 
and  trying  to  impress,  advise  and  pro- 
tect us,  the  same  as  they  did  while  they 
were  living  in  their  bodies. 

We  have  told  you  in  other  chapters 


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that  our  body  is  material  and  that  no 
material  body  can  speak  or  exist  with- 
out life,  that  life  is  spirit,  and  that, 
when  we  speak,  it  is  not  our  body  that 
speaks,  for  the  body  is  material,  but  it 
is  the  spirit  that  dwells  within  us 
which  speaks,  by  manipulating  certain 
organs,  and  thus  we  can  see,  hear  and 
understand  one  another. 

Our  material  body  could  not,  and 
would  not,  see  or  hear  anything  if  it 
were  not  for  the  spirit  that  is  within 
the  body,  which  is  the  life  of  the  body. 
Therefore  every  time  that  we  speak  it 
is  the  spirit  that  is  within  us  speaking 
to  the  other  person’s  spirit;  so,  to 
whomever  we  speak,  we  are  speaking 
to  the  spirit  of  that  person;  in  other 
words,  it  is  the  spirit  speaking  to  an- 
other spirit,  for  spirit  is  the  only  thing 


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83 


that  can  speak.  Therefore  every  time 
we  speak  we  are  in  communication 
with  a spirit,  and  are  speaking  to  that 
spirit,  whether  we  recognize  it  or  not. 

Spirits  can  and  do  manifest  to  peo- 
ple, and  can  show  themselves  to  any 
person  whose  spirit  eyes  are  opened. 
The  only  way  that  you  will  ever  see 
spirits  is  with  your  spirit  eyes.  If  a 
_^int  were  _to.  materialize  before  you, 
you  could  not,  and  would  not,  see  the 
spirit;  you  would  only  see  the  material 
form  that  the  spirit  has  assumed  in 
order  that  it  can  be  seen  with  the  mate- 
rial  eyes.  The  spirit  would  be  within 
the  materialized  form  the  same  as  the 
spirit  of  a person  living  which  dwells 
within  the.  body  of  flesh.  That  spirit 
can  leave  that  materialized  form  when- 


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ever  it  so  desires,  and  may  never  ap- 
pear that  way  again. 

Invisibility  does  not  prove  non-ex- 
istence. Many  things  occur  to  us  as  to 
which  we  doubt  and  waver,  simply  be- 
cause of  our  spiritual  feebleness;  we 
cannot  understand  them.  If  we  were 
to  develop  and  use  our  spirit  eyes  they 
would  get  stronger,  and  we  could  then 
understand  all  things. 

If  all  had  their  spirit  eyes  opened, 
they  would  see  spirits  which  they  can- 
not see  with  their  material  eyes;  they 
would  be  able  to  see  spirits  with  their 
spirit  eyes  around  each  person,  and 
would  know  how  the  spirits  take  con- 
trol of  people  the  way  they  do. 

We  assure  you  that  if  every  man 
could  see  spiritually  what  was  around 
him,  he  would  drive  the  evil  spirits 


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SPIRIT 


85 


away,  and  not  allow  such  spirits  and 
conditions  to  remain  and  take  posses- 
sion of  him;  he  would  then,  with  his 
spiritual  eyes  opened,  attract  the  good 
spirits,  and  thus  'be  happier  himself 
and  make  others  happier.  He  would 
also  enjoy  life’s  blessings  which  are  all 
around  him  now,  because  he  could  then 
see  the  good  spirits  and  could  call  for, 
and  would  receive,  their  help. 

The  Creator  has  given  us  all  spirit- 
ual eyes  to  use,  and  He  expects  us  to 
use  them  here  and  now,  and  see  the 
spirits  who  are  all  about  us,  and  know 
what  is  going  on  in  the  spirit  world,  so 
w^e  will  know  how  to  be  happy  here  by 
seeing  and  talking  with  those  who  are 
already  there,  who  will  advise  us  if  we 
will  only  ask  for  their  help.  We  should 
all  lead  clean,  pure  lives,  and  call  on  the 


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good  spirits  to  come  and  manifest  them- 
selves to  us,  showing  and  guiding  us  in 
the  way  that  they  would  have  us  to  go 
all  through  life,  which  will  lead  us  to 
happiness  and  light. 

Faith  has  nothing  to  do  with  what 
you  read  or  practise.  You  do  not  need 
to  have  Faith  to  see  and  talk  with  a per- 
son. Neither  do  you  have  to  have  Faith 
to  see  or  talk  to  a spirit  if  your  spirit 
eyes  are  open,  foi^ou  will  see  the  spirit 
and  know  to  whom  you  are  talking. 

It  used  to  be  said  that  we  had  five 
senses.  Now  Science  claims  we  have 
eight.  So,  any  person  having  use  of  all 
his  senses  should  be  able,  by  following 
the  teachings  of  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death”,  to  open  his 
spirit  eyes,  and  thus  see,  discern,  and 
receive  impressions  from,  the  spirit 
forces  that  are  all  around. 


CHAPTER  XII 


DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  DREAMS  AND 
VISIONS 

There  is  a difference  between  a 
Dream  and  a Vision,  yet  both  take 
place  when  your  muscles  are  thorough- 
ly relaxed,  or  when  you  are  asleep,  and 
you  call  them  all  dreams.  Dreams  are 
caused  either  by  a person  lying  on  his 
back,  with  the  back  of  his  head  (which 
is  the  base  of  the  brain)  resting  on  the 
pillow,  thus  cutting  off  the  circulation 
— stopping  the  flow  of  blood  to  the 
brain — and  affecting  the  brain  at  that 
time,  or  by  a person  eating  too  much 
just  before  retiring  at  night,  which  will 
also  affect  the  flow  of  blood  to  the  brain. 


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thus  causing  the  brain  to  cease  its 
proper  functioning.  In  other  words, 
causing  the  mind  to  ramble  causes  you 
to  dream,  which  fact  you  may  or  may 
not  remember  in  the  morning. 

Just  after  an  operation,  when  a per- 
son is  reviving  from  the  effects  of  the 
anaesthetic  that  has  been  administered 
to  him,  he  may  commence  to  talk  and 
keep  on  talking  while  in  that  condition, 
which  is  caused  by  the  effect  which  the 
anaesthetic  has  on  the  brain,  and  flow 
of  the  blood  to  the  brain,  for  the  time 
being.  All  this  may  be  called  dream- 
ing. 

You  may  retire  at  night  the  same  as 
usual,  and,  while  asleep,  see  some  per- 
son who  is  living,  whom  you  may  not 
have  seen  or  heard  from  for  months  or 
years,  or  you  may  see  the  spirit  of  some 


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89 


one  who  may  have  been  dead  for  years. 
In  the  morning  you  may  remember  all 
you  have  seen  in  your  dream,  and  may 
tell  some  one,  what  a vivid  and  wonder- 
ful dream  you  had  last  night.  If  you 
will  remember  you  were  not  lying  on 
your  back  with  your  head  pressing 
hard  on  the  pillow,  the  same  as  you 
were  when  you  were  dreaming.  Hence, 
this  was  not  a dream  but  a vision. 

People  have  always  had  dreams  and 
visions,  and  always  will  have  them. 
Sometimes  it  is  very  difficult  to  distin- 
guish the  difference  between  the  two. 
Before  a person  can,  or  will,  go  to  sleep, 
he  must  relax,  (that  is,  become  pas- 
sive,) in  every  muscle  of  his  anatomy, 
and  the  minute  he  relaxes  he  will  go  to 
sleep  at  once:  he  cannot  keep  awake. 
While  in  that  relaxed  condition  his 


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\ spirit  may  let  in  another  spirit  to  take 
1 control  of  his  body,  (as  we  have  ex- 
plained more  fully  in  other  chapters,) 
and  his  own  spirit  may  leave  its  body 
and  travel  many  miles  and  see  many 
things,  or  other  spirits  may  come  to  his 
bedside  and  visit  his  spirit  at  night,  and 
in  the  morning  he  may  remember  it  all, 
and  may  talk  about  it  for  days,  saying 
what  a wonderful  dream  he  had  had, 
when  really  it  was  not  a dream,  but  a 
vision.  As  he  has  not  had  it  explained 
to  him,  he  did  not  know  the  difference 
between  a dream  and  a vision. 

The  author  has  traveled  extensively, 
but  never  has  been  in  a place  that  he 
had  not  seen  in  spirit,  months,  or  even 
years,  before  he  visited  it.  We  know 
that  our  spirit  has  left  our  body  at 
night  while  we  were  asleep,  and  has 


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91 


traveled,  and  showed  us  different 
places,  and  when  we  would  go,  or  write, 
to  those  places  and  ask  if  such-and- 
such  were  the  case,  the  answer  would 
be,  “It  was  just  as  you  say  in  your  let- 
ter.” 

We  have  learned  how  to  become  re- 
laxed while  we  are  in  the  waking  state, 
so  that  our  spirit  can  and  does  leave 
our  body  and  go  to  any  part  of  the 
world  it  chooses,  to  see  what  it  wishes, 
then  return  to  our  body.  While  in  the 
v/aking  state  we  can  see  it  and  feel  it 
go  and  come,  therefore,  we  do  not  have 
to  wait  to  retire  for  the  night  in  order 
to  become  relaxed,  so  that  our  spirit 
may  leave  our  body,  before  we  can  see 
other  spirits,  and  know  that  our  spirit 
has  been  out  of  our  body. 

When  you  are  thoroughly  relaxed. 


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you  are  then  in  a passive  condition,  and 
it  is  much  easier  for  your  spirit  to  leave 
your  body  or  for  other  spirits  to  come 
and  reveal  to  you  what  they  desire, 
than  when  you  are  in  a positive  condi- 
tion. 


CHAPTER  XIII 


THOUGHT 

Every  person  attracts  to  himself 
spirits  according  to  the  thoughts  he 
thinks.  Thoughts  are  things,  and  every 
thought  has  its  color,  and  every  color 
has  its  vibrations.  The  very  walls  of 
our  home  are  pictured  with  our 
thoughts.  Oh,  could  we  picture  the 
power  of  thought  before  you,  so  that 
you  would  never  forget  it  and  the  effect 
it  has  upon  your  happiness  in  this  life 
and  in  the  spirit  world,  it  would  cause 
you  to  change  your  thoughts  and  your 
entire  life. 

Go  where  we  may,  do  what  we  will, 


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we  cannot  help  but  think,  and  as  we 
think  we  leave  a trail  of  thought  be- 
hind us.  Other  people  following  in  our 
footsteps  gather  up  the  thoughts  that 
we  leave  behind  us,  which  may  cause 
them  to  do  the  things  we  were  doing  or 
thinking  of  doing.  By  thinking  evil 
thoughts  we  are  sowing  seeds  of  evil, 
and  sooner  or  later  they  come  home  to 
us  as  fruit,  because  they  are  ours,  and 
we  will  reap  our  harvest  either  in  the 
flesh  or  in  the  spirit  realm. 

We  are  all  architects  and  builders, 
and  are  planning  and  building  and 
sending  into  the  spirit-world  material 
thoughts,  words,  and  deeds  of  which 
our  home  in  the  spirit-world  is  being 
built. 

Everyone  must  go  to  his  own  home : 
you  cannot  go  to  ours,  neither  can  we 


THOUGHT 


95 


go  to  yours,  and  we  will  tell  you  now, 
dear  brother  and  sister,  your  home  in 
the  spirit-world  depends  upon  your 
thoughts,  which  are  the  kind  of  mate- 
rial you  send  there,  and  if  you  are  not 
sending  any  sunshine,  you  will  never 
find  love  or  happiness  there  waiting 
for  you. 

When  we  are  born  into  the  world  we 
know  nothing.  The  spirit  takes  control 
of  our  body,  and  we  begin  to  develop  it 
accordingly.  We  go  to  school  to  learn, 
and  learn  only  that  which  others  know, 
and  to  do  what  they  do.  How  and  where 
do  we  keep  all  that  which  we  learn  and 
see  while  in  and  out  of  school? 

Have  we  a record  of  everything  in 
our  lives?  Is  there  a record  of  our 
thoughts,  words  and  deeds,  or  whatever 
we  see,  hear,  or  feel, — and  the  impres- 


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sions  we  receive?  Are  they  recorded 
or  stored  away  somewhere  in,  or  on, 
our  brain?  If  so,  how  about  the  man 
who  saw  a tiny  drop  of  water?  If 
that  was  recorded  with  a dot  and  dash, 
or  other  imprint,  somewhere  on  his 
brain,  would  it  not  stand  to  reason, 
that  if  the  same  man  saw  an  ocean  of 
water  and  traveled  across  it,  there 
would  be  a larger  dot,  dash  or  imprint 
somewhere  on  his  brain.  Or,  if  a man 
were  to  see  an  ant-hill,  and  it  were  re- 
corded on  the  brain,  there  must  be  an 
imprint  different  in  size  from  the  im- 
print that  would  be  recorded  if  he 
should  see  the  Rocky  Mountains.  The 
Scientists  and  the  Doctors  have  never 
been  able,  with  their  most  powerful 
magnifying  glasses,  to  find  any  dots  or 


THOUGHT 


97 


dashes,  marks  or  impressions,  on  the 
brain. 

The  only  difference  they  see  between 
the  brain  of  a child  and  that  of  an 
adult,  is  a little  more  water  in  the 
child’s  than  in  an  older  person’s  brain. 
If  that  be  true,  how  do  we  remember 
what  we  see  or  hear  during  our  mate- 
rial life  in  traveling  around  the  world? 
How  do  we  remember  the  appearance 
of  many  places,  lands,  animals  and 
people  that  we  see?  We  see  them  v/ilh 
our  spiritual  eyes!  If  everything  we 
see  were  recorded  on  the  brain,  we 
know  there  would  be  a limit  to  the 
brain’s  capacity. 

When  the  man  who  has  never  been 
outside  of  his  county  is  seeing  and 
talking  all  the  time  about  the  things  he 
sees  around  him ; if  his  brain  is  covered 


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with  what  he  sees,  how  about  the  man 
who  has  traveled  all  over  the  world? 
How  would  his  brain  have  space  enough 
to  record  all  he  sees  and  hears  during 
his  entire  life? — No!  Our  brains  are 
free  from  dots,  dashes  or  other  im- 
prints. 

You  describe  your  old  home  when 
you  are  many  miles  away  from  it;  you 
give  a minute  description  of  the  house, 
barn,  all  the  out-buildings,  cow-yard, 
meadow,  trees,  farm-land  and  road  in 
and  around  the  barn  and  house.  How 
do  you  see  them?  Is  there  any  impres- 
sion in  or  on  your  brain?  No!  You 
see  them  with  your  spiritual  eyes. 

Everything  that  you  describe  in  that 
way  you  see  with  the  spiritual  eyes; 
there  is  nothing  too  close,  or  too  far,  or 
too  small,  but  that  it  can  be  seen  with 


THOUGHT 


99 


the  spiritual  eyes.  If  you  have  ever 
lived  in  California  and  are  living  in 
Boston,  sitting  in  your  apartment, 
and  someone  v/ere  to  ask  you  to  describe 
your  old  home  in  California,  you  would 
see  it  instantly  with  your  spiritual  eyes 
and  could  give  a full  description  of  the 
same. 

Your  spirit  does  not  wait  for  you  or 
someone  to  open  the  door  so  it  can  go 
out,  down  this  or  that  railroad  or  wag- 
on road,  through  this  or  that  valley, 
tunnel,  or  over  this  or  that  mountain. 
The  moment  the  spirit  leaves  you,  it 
goes  right  through  the  walls  of  your 
room,  through  buildings  and  mountains 
direct  to  your  old  home,  sees  the  home, 
and  then  you  describe  it  as  you  see  it 
v/ith  the  spirit  eye.  There  is  not  any- 
thing too  high  or  too  low,  or  too  thick, 


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that  spirit  or  spirit  forces  cannot  pene- 
trate, see  and  describe  to  us. 

As  we  have  told  you  before,  our  bod- 
ies are  material  and  cannot  see  any- 
thing if  the  spirit  does  not  show  it  to 
us.  The  spirit  is  the  life  that  is  in  our 
bodies,  and  if  it  were  not  for  that  life 
we  could  not  see  anything  with  our  ma- 
terial eyes.  You  cannot  show  or  de- 
scribe “Nothing,’’  because  it  does  not 
exist.  We  ask  you  to  read  a book;  if 
you  did  not  have  the  book  before  you, 
you  could  not  see  it ; if  you  did  not  see 
it,  you  could  not  read  it  nor  describe  it. 
If  you  describe  a book  with  your  mate- 
rial or  spiritual  eyes  the  book  must  be 
there  or  you  could  not  see  it,  and  not 
seeing  it  with  either  your  material  or 
spiritual  eyes  you  could  not  describe  it. 

We  see  and  describe  according  to  our 


THOUGHT 


101 


thoughts,  for  thoughts  are  things.  Ac- 
cording as  we  think,  we  attract  that 
class  of  spirits  to  us,  and  that  is  what 
we  are. 


CHAPTER  XIV 


TWO  PLACES 

There  are  only  two  places.  These 
are:  Heaven  (or  the  ether  which  sur- 
rwnds  us)  and  the  “Earth.’’  If  we  are 
not  inside  of  the  Earth,  we  must  be  on 
its  surface,  or  in  Heaven. 

In  the  countless  ages  of  the  past, 
when  people  died,  where  did  their  spir- 
its go  when  they  left  their  bodies,  if 
they  did  not  stay  here  in  the  atmo- 
sphere which  surrounds  the  Earth? 
There  is  no  other  place  for  them  to  go 
' to,  for  we  are  in  Heaven  today  as  much 
as  we  ever  will  be.  The  earth  and  air 
about  us  are  teeming  with  all  kinds  of 


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103 


life,  while  we  in  the  midst  of  it,  are  as 
ignorant  of  it  as  if  it  did  not  exist. 

All  the  millions  and  millions  of  spir- 
its of  people  who  have  lived  on  this 
earth-plane  are  among  us  today.  This 
is  their  Heaven  as  well  as  ours,  the  only 
Heaven  there  is,  and  the  only  difference 
between  us  and  them  is,  that  they  have 
left  their  bodies  of  flesh  and  taken  on 
spiritual  bodies.  If  our  spiritual  eyes 
were  opened,  v/e  could  see  those  spirits, 
the  same  as  they  see  us.  They  are  all 
around  and  among  us  today  in  spirit, 
as  much  as  if  we,  who  are  in  the  flesh, 
had  laid  aside  our  material  bodies  and 
become  as  they,  spirits  also,  for  we  are 
spirit  clothed  with  flesh. 

When  a person  laughs,  he  does  not 
have  to  go  to  any  certain  place  to  laugh, 
but  he  laughs  right  where  he  is;  or. 


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when  a person  is  happy  or  sad  or  suf- 
fering, these  spirits  are  all  right  here 
with  him  and  they  may  be  within  a few 
feet  of  one  another.  Just  so  in  the  spirit 
world,  or  Heaven.  Whether  we  do  right 
or  wrong,  we  all  stay  right  here  on  this 
earth-plane,  and  at  our  so-called 
‘‘death”  we  change  form  and  enter  our 
Heaven,  or  the  spirit  world,  and  will 
either  be  happy  or  sad  according  to  our 
life’s  work. 

Hell  is  not  a place — either  below  the 
Earth,  or  in  the  bowels  of  the  Earth — 
to  which  all  who  attempt  to  violate 
God’s  laws  must  go  for  punishment. 
Hell  is  a condition,  and  is  independent 
of  place.  .There  is  no  chance  for  people 
to  escape  punishment  for  wrong-doing. 
They  must  pay  the  penalty  for  the 
wrong  until  they  progress  out  of  that 


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105 


condition  that  men  call  Hell. 

Just  think  how  pure  and  innocent 
every  child  was  when  it  was  born,  al- 
though its  parents  may  not  have  been 
good.  That  child  cannot  be  held  re- 
sponsible for  what  some  one  else  has 
done  or  may  do  through  life.  It  makes 
no  difference  how  innocent  a person 
was  when  born,  he  has  said  or  done 
something  in  life  he  was  sorry  for  lat- 
er. When  he  was  sorry  for  doing  wrong, 
he  was  suffering  remorse  for  it,  which 
suffering  is  hell,  and  that  is  the  only 
hell  there  is. 

Man  is  making  his  own  hell  and  liv-  j 
ing  in  it,  when  he  attempts  to  violate 
God’s  laws  and  does  wrong;  he  brings  ; 
upon  himself  his  own  punishment;  he  | 
must  suffer,  and  that  is  hell.  We  need 
not  wait  until  after  death,  to  find,  or  ; 


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go  to,  hell  to  suffer,  for  it  is  within  us 
when  we  do  wrong.  As  man  lives  within 
himself,  so  is  he  living  in  Heaven  or 
hell,  but  after  he  has  paid  the  penalty 
for  wrong-doing,  he  does  not  suffer  any 
more,  and  has  no  more  hell  within  him. 
He  can  think  and  do  good  and  can  live 
and  have  Heaven  within  him.  All  per- 
sons make  their  own  selection  of  their 
abiding-place,  by  their  thoughts  and 
deeds.  The  only  hell  there  is,  is  just 
what  they  make  for  themselves,  which 
is  the  condition  within  themselves. 


CHAPTER  XV 


ALL  EVIL  IS  UNDEVELOPED  GOOD 

Everything  that  grows  is  good.  Al- 
though we  may  not  like  the  taste  of  it, 
or  it  may  not  agree  with  us,  or  be  fit 
for  food,  still  it  may  be  good  for  some 
other  purpose,  and  just  because  we  may 
not  be  able  to  eat  it,  or  like  the  taste  of 
it,  or  do  not  know  its  use,  we  should  not 
condemn  it.  Some  one  else  may  like  it, 
or  it  may  be  very  useful  in  curing  some 
disease;  while  if  we  ate  it,  it  might 
poison  us  or  cause  us  to  become  ill. 

You  never  saw  or  heard  of  anything 
growing  and  decaying  at  the  same 
time.  If  it  decayed,  it  could  not  grow. 


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If  the  fruit  is  not  picked  when  ripe  on 
the  tree,  it  will  fall  to  the  ground,  be- 
come bruised,  decay  and  must  return  to 
the  earth  from  which  it  came.  Should 
we  say  it  is  the  fault  of  the  fruit,  and 
that  it  is  evil,  and  no  good?  Not  so! 
All  evil  is  undeveloped  good  1 If  the  de- 
cayed fruit  which  is  lying  on  the 
ground  had  been  picked  from  the  tree 
and  used,  it  would  not  have  decayed. 

While  the  fruit  is  on  the  tree  it 
draws  its  life  from  the  tree,  the  tree 
draws  its  life  from  the  earth ; then  the 
fruit  comes  from  the  earth,  and  it  must 
return  to  it  in  some  form  or  other, 
sooner  or  later ; but  because  it  does,  that 
is  no  sign  that  the  tree  is  evil  and 
should  be  cut  down  and  destroyed. 

Our  parents  are  the  tree ; we  are  the 
fruit;  our  parents  were  good,  why 


ALL  EVIL  IS  UNDEVELOPED  GOOD  109 


should  we  be  evil?  They  left  good  here 
for  us,  why  will  we  do  wrong  when 
there  is  good  all  around  us?  If  we 
could  only  see  the  good  in  everything 
and  use  it,  and  know  how  to  attract 
good  to  us,  and  have  it  within  ourselves 
as  part  of  our  being,  then  we  could  give 
out  or  impart  it  to  others. 

We  can  only  give  out  that  which  we 
have  within  us.  If  there  is  evil  within 
us,  we  are  undeveloped.  If  we  were 
developed  we  could  see  the  good  and 
would  drive  the  evil  away,  and  attract 
the  good  to  us,  and  would  do  good  to 
those  with  whom  we  come  in  contact. 

Every  person  wishes  to  do  right. 
Why,  then,  do  they  do  evil?  There 
never  was  a_,person  whp_  wa_s  born  a 
thief  or  murderer;  when  he  was._born 
he  was  innocent,  and  knew  no  evil. 


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Then,  why  are  there  so  many  thieves  or 
murderers  in  the  world  today?  Because 
men  do  not  know  how  to  protect  them- 
7 selves  from  the  evil  spirits  of  those  who 
did  evil  deeds  while  they  were  here  in 
the  body,  and  who  try  to  impress  mor- 
tals to  do  the  same  as  they  did. 

Those  who  commit  crimes  do  as  they 
are  impressed,  never  stopping  to  con- 
] sider  the  consequences.  If  they  under- 

I 

^ I stood  how  to  control  themselves  they 

« ’ would  not  allow  the  evil  conditions  and 

impressions  of  these  spirits  to  take  pos- 
session of  them.  Therefore,  that  which 
has  possession  of  us  makes  us  what  we 
are.  If  one  could  see,  spiritually,  that 
which  causes  one  to  do  evil,  he  would 
turn  from  his  evil  ways  and  lead  a good 
life. 

There  are  spirits  everywhere,  all 


ALL  EVIL  IS  UNDEVELOPED  GOOD  HI 


around  and  among  us,  who  do,  and  are 
impressing  us  to  do,  what  they  did  or 
wanted  to  do  while  living  in  their  bod- 
ies. If  a man  has  worked  at  the  carpen- 
ter’s trade  for  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  and  should  go  to  England  and  work 
for  a living,  he  would  naturally  work  at 
his  trade,  for  that  is  all  he  knows  how 
to  do.  If  you  know  nothing  here  in  this 
life,  you  will  not  know  anything  in  the 
spirit  life ; but  you  will,  and  must,  learn 
in  the  spirit  life. 

If  you  lived  here  all  these  years  on 
earth  in  ignorance  when  there  were  so 
many  different  ways  for  you  to  have 
learned  while  here,  then,  when  you  pass 
into  spirit  life,  you  will  see  how  you 
have  robbed  the  good  spirits  that  would 
have  come  in  and  impressed  you;  then 
you  would  have  been  happier  and 


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would  have  enjoyed  life’s  blessings, 
which  would  have  made  the  spirit  hap- 
pier too ; but  you  robbed  the  spirit  of  its 
chance  to  do  that  work. 

Ignorance  is  no  excuse  in  spirit  life. 
Because  of  not  learning  here,  your  spir- 
it will  have  to  learn  there,  in  the  spirit 
world,  and  v/hile  your  spirit  is  learning 
what  you  should  have  learned  while  it 
was  in  your  body,  it  will  be  compelled 
to  remain  in  one  place  until  it  has 
learned  its  lesson.  The  spirit  cannot, 
or  will  not,  have  a chance  to  go  about, 
enjoying  the  blessing  it  should  have, 
had  it  done  its  work  while  in  the  flesh. 

It  will  not  make  any  difference  what 
excuse  you  may  think  you  have  for  not 
doing  your  duty,  while  in  your  body. 
You  will  And  that  excuses  do  not  count 
in  the  spirit  world.  It  does  not  make 


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any  difference  what  your  belief  may  be, 
or  what  you  have  been  taught  to  be- 
lieve, or  of  what  race  or  color  you  are, 
or  whether  you  be  nobleman,  ruler,  or 
king;  if  you  have  done  wrong  instead 
of  right,  and  have  not  already  paid  for 
it  in  the  flesh,  not  in  dollars  and  cents, 
but  in  suffering,  you  must  pay,  then,  in 
the  spirit  world. 

The  laws  that  cause  you  to  suffer  or 
to  be  happy  were  not  made  by  or  for, 
man,  to  please  man,  but  are  natural 
laws.  According  to  those  laws  we  our- 
selves write  our  life’s  history,  and  are 
judged  by  those  laws,  which  no  man 
can  change  or  erase.  Man-made  laws 
are  changeable.  God’s  Laws  are  not ! 


CHAPTER  XVI 


BODY,  SPIRIT,  AND  SOUL 

The  body  is  the  house,  the  Spirit  is 
the  Life,  and  the  Soul  is  the  Good  which 
the  spirit  creates  and  accomplishes, 
through  the  body.  The  body  is  the  house 
in  which  the  spirit  lives  and  does  its 
work,  and  the  spirit  is  the  life  of  the 
body.  The  body  could  not  exist  without 
the  spirit,  which  manipulates  the 
brain  and  causes  the  body  to  think, 
talk,  and  perform  its  various  functions. 
While  the  spirit  is  causing  the  body  to 
do  and  act  as  it  does,  the  good  that  is 
accomplished  by  the  spirit,  in  its  work, 
is  the  Soul. 


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115 


Our  bodies  are  like  an  organ  in  the 
house.  The  person  who  fingers  the 
keys  of  that  organ  is  not  the  organ,  but 
is  the  life  or  the  spirit  of  the  organ,  for 
when  he  fingers  the  keys  of  the  organ 
and  causes  it  to  play,  he  is  then  the  spir- 
it of  that  organ.  The  organ  could  not 
have  played  of  itself,  without  the  spir- 
it. The  music  which  the  spirit  causes 
to  be  played  by  the  organ  is  the  Soul  of 
the  organ.  The  organ  could  not  have 
produced  the  sounds  of  music  of  its  own 
accord,  but  must  have  the  assistance  of 
the  spirit  of  Life,  as  the  organ  is  mate- 
rial and  has  no  life  of  its  own ; neither 
could  the  spirit  produce  music  of  itself, 
as  it  must  have  material  through  which 
to  produce  results.  Thus,  spirit  and 
matter  are  necessary  to  produce  the 
music  which  is  the  soul  of  the  organ. 


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For  completeness  there  must  be 
Body,  Spirit  and  Soul,  three  in  one ; for 
the  body  is  not  complete  without  the 
spirit  of  life,  therefore  it  has  no  power 
of  its  own,  neither  can  it  accomplish 
anything.  Spirit  is  always  active, 
working  through  material  means  to 
achieve  its  mission,  and  the  good  which 
it  produces  is  the  Soul.  Neither  Body 
nor  Soul  can  exist  without  Spirit,  which 
is-  Life. 


CHAPTER  XVII 


THE  GOD  TO  WORSHIP 

The  God  we  (Soul  Scientists)  wor- 
ship is  not  an  imaginary,  man-made 
God,  sitting  upon  a great  throne,  some- 
where away  up  in  the  skies,  but  He  is 
always  right  here  with  us.  We  know 
our  body  is  material,  and  we  know  that 
of  itself,  it  cannot  speak  a word.  When 
God,  who  is  the  Spirit  which  has  con- 
trol of  our  body,  leaves  it,  then  the  body 
dies. 

There  is  something  within  the  body 
that  makes  it  talk,  walk,  and  move 
about.  We  know  that  something  is 
alive  within  us,  and  that  life  makes  us 


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feel,  act,  and  do  just  as  we  do,  with  our 
bodies;  our  body  could  not  exist  in  its 
present  form,  without  that  life. 

When  we  hear  anything  in  answer  to 
our  desire,  it  is  the  spirit  that  is  within 
us,  talking  to  us ; it  has  control  over  our 
body  and  may  cause  us  to  laugh,  and 
change  the  expression  and  shape  of  the 
face  for  that  moment;  we  could  not 
have  laughed  had  it  not  been  for  the 
spirit  within  us,  because  we  live,  think, 
act,  (whistle,  sing,  or  cry,)  according 
to  the  spirit  that  is  within  us;  then  it 
is  the  spirit  within  us  that  causes  us 
to  be  happy  or  sad.  We  know  when  we 
do  right  or  do  wrong,  because  we  feel 
either  happy  or  sad.  We  do  not  have 
to  ask  anyone  how  we  feel,  for  no  one 
can  tell  us.  It  is  the  spirit  that  is  with- 
in us  that  tells  us  when  we  do  right  or 


THE  GOD  TO  WORSHIP 


119 


do  wrong,  without  our  asking  it. 

That  Spirit  is  our  God.  It  is  within 
us  and  controls  us,  at  all  times.  The  \ 
Spirit  of  Life  is  the  only  God  to  wor-  ! 
ship,  and  when  you  pray,  pray  to  Him. 
He  is  the  only  One  who  can,  or  will, 
hear  and  answer  prayer  for  you;  and 
do  not  forget  it.  You  do  not  have  to 
get  on  the  house-top,  or  erect  large 
buildings,  which  may  cost  thousands  or 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars,  in 
which  to  pray  aloud,  so  that  He  will 
be  able  to  hear  you  pray ; neither  is  He 
far  away,  sitting  upon  a great,  imagin- 
ary throne,  ruling  the  world  from  on 
high ; nor  is  He  in  some  foreign,  or  un- 
known, land  where  He  saves,  elects  or 
selects  only  a few  to  worship  Him.  He 
is  today  sitting  on  the  throne  in  every 
person’s  heart. 


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We  know  when  we  feel  happy  or  sad, 
and  we  know  what  we  were  doing  or 
thinking  about  when  we  were  feeling 
that  way.  We  know  what  caused  us  to 
feel  happy  or  unhappy,  and  what  was 
within  us,  which  caused  those  feelings. 
Then  why  not  choose  to  worship  the 
good  spirit  within  us?  Our  body  is 
dead,  so  far  as  speaking  of  its  own  ac- 
cord, without  the  spirit  that  is  within 
it  causing  it  to  stand,  walk,  talk  and 
exist  in  its  present  form. 

The  God  to  worship  is  the  God  of 
Love.  He  will  drive  out  all  fear,  hat- 
red, and  jealousy  from  our  hearts,  and 
will  set  up  a temple  of  Love  that  will 
so  radiate  all  around  us,  that  all  will 
see,  and  know,  and  feel  that  spirit  of 
love  which  will  live  on  and  on,  and  con- 
tinue to  make  others  happy  who  come 


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121 


in  contact  with  it.  The  God  of  Love  is 
the  only  God  to  worship  and  our  heart 
should  be  His  abiding-place. 


CHAPTER  XVIII 


god’s  laws 

God’s  Laws  in  the  Material  and  Spir- 
it World  no  man,  nor  man-made  Laws, 
can  change.  Men  may  put  a man  in  a 
place  where  he  will  suffer,  but  he  can 
suffer  only  a certain  amount  of  pain, 
then  he  becomes  unconscious,  and  suf- 
fers no  more.  While  he  is  in  that  con- 
dition, no  matter  how  much  more  they 
try  to  force  upon  him,  he  is  dead  to  the 
sense  of  pain. 

People  can  suffer  only  a certain 
amount  of  pain,  no  matter  what  may 
have  caused  it,  before  they  pass  into 
that  unconscious  condition  in  which 


god's  laws 


123 


they  will  suffer  no  more.  Or  they  may 
pass  out  of  life  while  in  that  condition, 
or  they  may  recover  and  live  for  a num- 
ber of  years,  and  never  suffer  any  more 
such  pain. 

God’s  laws  do  not  recognize  differ- 
ences of  either  race  or  color,  bond-man 
or  king,  neither  do  they  recognize 
man’s  laws.  God’s  laws  are  immutable, 
and  just,  at  all  times,  everywhere,  both 
here  and  in  the  spirit  world.  The  mo- 
ment we  do  right,  or  do  wrong,  we  shall 
be  happy  or  unhappy,  not  according  to 
man’s  but  God’s  laws,  no  matter  what 
man  may  say  or  do. 

Man  may  execute,  or  destroy,  the 
body.  God  pays  no  attention  to  that, 
for  the  spirit  of  man  belongs  to  God, 
and  that  is  what  is  judged.  Hanging, 
shooting,  electrocuting,  may  cause  the 


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body  to  suffer  for  just  a few  seconds, 
and  the  body  is  dead ; then  it  is  the  spir- 
it that  suffers. 

God’s  laws  rule  the  spirit  as  well  in, 
as  out  of  the  body.  He  gives  us  the 
spirit  to  use  in  our  bodies,  and  tells  us 
to  use  it.  He  does  not  tell  us,  how, 
when,  or  where,  or  what  spirit  to 
choose,  but  He  has  given  us  brains  to 
use,  and  expects  us  to  use  them  and  to 
distinguish  right  from  v/rong. 

Do  we  ever  stop  to  consider  which  is 
right,  or  which  is  wrong,  or  ask  Him, 
or  pray  to  Him,  for  advice,  or  to  show 
us  the  light,  or  to  lead  us  aright?  No! 
We  usually  go  right  on,  just  as  though 
we  owned  and  controlled  Heaven  and 
Earth.  Just  wait!  Some  bright 
morning  we  may  not  awaken ; our 
spirit  may  find  itself  in  some  strange 


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125 


land,  or  we  may  not  know  just  what  is 
the  matter  with  us.  It  will  only  be  a 
matter  of  time,  before  we  shall  find 
out  where  we  are, — no  matter  how 
much  we  may  love  our  home,  and  how 
many  dear  loved  ones  we  may  have  on 
Earth  depending  on  us,  and  no  matter 
who  we  are,  or  what  we  have  done,  or 
what  our  mission  in  life  is.  Then  we 
shall  come  under  God’s  laws. 

Do  not  try  to  excuse  yourself  when 
you  get  there!  You  know  better  than 
any  one  else  what  you  have  done  or 
left  undone.  But  would  you  say  you 
did  not  do  much?  Oh,  yes,  of  course 
you  never  did  anything  wrong!  It 
was  always  the  other  fellow  who  did 
everything!  Of  course  you  are  inno- 
cent! But  listen;  you  have  attempted 
to  violate  God’s  laws!  Remember, 


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God’s  laws  are  immutable  and  there- 
fore they  cannot  be  violated  nor  broken 
by  man,  and  when  we  say  man  vio- 
lates God’s  laws,  we  mean  man  has  at- 
tempted to  violate  His  laws,  by  doing 
wrong,  but  has  only  injured  himself, 
not  the  laws.  God  did  not  compel  you 
to  do  wrong;  you  did  it  of  your  own 
free  will,  and  now  you  are  suffering  for 
it,  according  to  God’s  laws.  Today  is 
the  day  of  judgment  and  of  salvation, 
and  you  are  receiving  yours. 

God’s  law  is  like  a giant  oak-tree. 
No  matter  how  the  thunder  may  roll 
and  the  lightning  flash,  or  the  hurri- 
cane roar,  the  oak  still  stands.  The 
oak  is  alongside  of  every  one’s  path- 
way of  life.  You  do  not  have  to  run  up 
against  the  oak,  but  if  you  do,  you  do 
not  hurt  the  tree ; you  only  hurt  your- 


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127 


self.  Just  so  with  God’s  laws.  You  do 
not  hurt  God’s  laws  by  running  against 
or  attempting  to  violate  them ; you  only 
hurt  yourself,  and  you  are  the  only 
one  that  will  suffer  for  it.  You  punish 
yourself ; the  law  does  not  do  it.  That 
is  why  God’s  lav/s  are  just — the  rich 
and  the  poor,  the  great  and  small,  the 
king  and  peasant  are  alike  when 
judged. 

We  all  punish  ourselves  when  we  at- 
tempt to  violate  God’s  laws,  and  we  all 
come  into  this  world  according  to  God’s 
laws;  and  while  we  live  on  the  Earth, 
and  when  we  pass  out  of  this  mortal 
body  into  the  spirit  world,  we  will  still 
come  under  God’s  laws. 

If  it  were  possible  for  us  to  show  a 

record  of  the  source  of  God’s  existence, 
or  of  our  own,  or  of  the  origin  of  our 


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first  parents,  would  that  make  you  a 
happier  or  better  person?  Would  it 
change  the  color  of  your  skin,  or  when 
it  came  your  time  to  die,  would  this 
knowledge  save  you?  No!  When  we 
do  what  is  right,  we  will  reap  the  re- 
ward of  happiness,  and  if  we  do  wrong, 
I we  must  pay  the  penalty,  here.  If  we 
die  before  we  have  paid  the  penalty, 
v/e  will  suffer  in  the  other  life  until  it 
is  paid;  after  which  we  will  progress 
from  that  condition. 

All  the  people  who  have  ever  lived,  or 
ever  will  live,  in  this  world,  cannot 
atone  for  our  transgressions,  nor  suf- 
fer for  us,  when  we  defy  God’s,  or  Na- 
ture’s laws.  It  may  be  that  we  have 
been  forced  to  follow  those  who  have 
power  over  us,  which  has  caused  us  to 
suffer,  and  to  do  the  things  we  are  do- 


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129 


ing  or  have  done ; yet  we  must  pay  the 
penalty  for  what  we  do. 

If  every  person  had  his  rights  at  all 
times,  he  would  not,  in  order  to  please 
his  master,  be  forced  to  do  the  things 
that  cause  him  to  suffer.  But  ignor- 
ance is  no  excuse,  in  law,  and  there  is 
no  excuse  for  ignorance  if  we  will  use 
our  thinking  faculties,  which  were 
given  to  us  for  that  purpose. 

Everything  in  this  world  is  for  us  to 
use,  and  if  we  do  not  use  it  aright  we 
shall  suffer.  Ignorance  of  God’s,  or 
Nature’s,  lav/s  will  not  keep  us  from 
suffering  when  we  do  wrong,  day  or 
night,  alone,  in  secret,  or  in  company 
with  other  people.  It  does  not  make 
any  difference  who  you  are,  or  how, 
when,  or  where  you  attempt  to  violate 
God’s  law,  you  will  have  to  pay  the  pen- 


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alty  either  here  or  in  the  next  life.  All 
persons  are  held  responsible  for  the 
thoughts,  acts,  and  deeds  which  they  do 
while  living,  and  are  judged  by  them, 
here  and  hereafter. 

God’s  laws  do  not  judge  a man  for 
just  the  good  he  may  do  on  Sunday 
alone,  but  for  the  good  he  does  every 
day  in  the  week. 

God  does  not  change  his  laws,  neither 
can  man  change  them.  God’s  laws  will 
never  wear  out,  nor  can  they  be  broken 
or  destroyed  by  man;  and  whenever 
man  does  wrong  he  will  be  corrected 
for  his  v/rong  doing,  whether  it  be  Sun- 
day or  Monday,  day  or  night, — it 
makes  no  difference  to  God,  what  man 
may  say  or  do.  God’s  ways  are  nat- 
ural ways.  God  does  not  change  His 


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131 


laws  to  please  man;  neither  can  they 
be  broken  or  changed  by  man. 

God’s  laws  rule  all  men,  and  it  is  true 
that  some  men  can  stand  more  pain 
and  do  more  work  than  others,  yet  all 
come  under  His  laws.  If  fire  will  burn 
and  destroy  one  body,  it  will  burn  and 
destroy  all  bodies  that  come  in  contact 
with  it,  and  if  cold  will  freeze  the  flesh 
of  one,  it  will  freeze  all  flesh  that  is 
exposed  to  it. 

God’s  laws  do  not  judge  men  accord- 
ing to  the  way  some  men  think  man 
should  be  judged,  but  it  judges  man  ac- 
cording to  the  laws  of  God,  and  those 
laws  no  man  or  men  can  alter.  Those 
laws  recognize  neither  color  nor  race. 
You  get  your  reward  according  to  your 
thoughts,  words,  and  deeds  while  living 
in  the  body,  and  no  man  can  hinder 


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you  from  getting  your  just  deserts,  or 
can  change  God’s  laws.  No  matter 
what  you  may  believe,  you  will  be 
judged  aright  in  the  spirit  world,  ac- 
cording to  God’s  laws. 


CHAPTER  XIX 


MAN-MADE  LAWS 

Men  have  made  laws  to  govern  man, 
and  have  taken  life — destroyed  his 
body  and  tried  to  cast  his  spirit  into 
darkness.  They  have  tried  to  build  a 
wall  around  Heaven,  and  lock  its  gates, 
and  said  that  only  a few — whom  they 
select — can  get  into  Heaven.  If  a 
man,  while  living,  has  done  wrong,  and 
is  angry  and  full  of  vengeance,  and  his 
spirit  is  cast  into  the  spirit  world  in 
that  condition,  it  will  do  great  harm  in 
the  spirit  world,  which  is  all  around 
this  Earth-plane  (where  all  people  are 
living  who  have  not  had  their  spirit 


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eyes  opened,  so  as  to  be  able  to  see  what 
spirits  are  around),  by  impressing  and 
causing  them  to  do  the  way  such  spir- 
its did  before  leaving  their  mortal 
bodies. 

Men  make  laws  and  send  such  spir- 
its into  the  spirit  world  full  of  wrath, 
when  they  will  be  in  a position  to  do 
more  harm  to  the  innocent,  and  to  those 
who  do  not  understand  the  spiritual 
lav/s,  than  they  would  have  been  in  had 
they  continued  to  live  on  the  Earth, 
suffered,  and  paid  the  penalty,  before 
passing  into  the  spirit  world. 

If  the  man  was  guilty  of  the  crime, 
and  had  been  allowed  to  live  his  allot- 
ted time  in  the  flesh,  and  had  suffered 
and  paid  the  penalty  for  the  crime, 
then,  when  he  did  pass  into  spirit  life 
he  would  not  have  been  a revengeful 


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135 


spirit,  and  would  not  then  have  tried 
to  impress  others  to  do  wrong. 

This  is  an  unnatural  world.  Man 
can  do  WTong,  and  if  he  is  fined  for  it, 
and  has  money,  the  money  atones  for  it, 
and  he  goes  free.  Man  tries  to  make 
laws  to  rule  Heaven  the  same  as  he 
does  to  rule  Earth.  Some  rulers  gather 
mighty  armies  together  to  destroy 
other  nations  and  lives,  in  order  that 
they  themselves  may  rule  those  na- 
tions, and  acquire  their  wealth,  and 
conquer  the  world;  then  those  rulers 
place  themselves  on  an  equality  with 
God! 

Man-made  laws  are  material,  and  all 
material  laws  are  broken  and  violated. 
Man-made  laws  say  that  you  are  in- 
nocent, no  matter  what  crime  you  may 
have  committed,  until  you  are  proved 


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guilty.  They  destroy  the  body,  but 
they  cannot  destroy  the  spirit  or  soul 
of  man. 

All  the  books  that  ever  have  been,  or 
ever  will  be,  written,  were  written  and 
will  be  written,  by  man.  Some  of  those 
men  claim  that  their  books  are  the  only 
true  books  that  were  ever  written  by 
God,  and  handed  down  to  man,  yet 
those  books,  and  all  things  therein,  have 
been  written  by  man,  for  man,  to  please 
man.  They  have  made  their  God,  and 
have  told  men  that  all  must  believe  in, 
and  worship.  Him,  after  they  have 
branded  Him  such  a cruel  God.  They 
have  also  told  what  God  would  do  to 
those  who  did  not  believe  in  their  teach- 
ings, and  in  their  man-made  God.  In 
those  books  they  say  God  is  sitting  on  a 
throne  in  Heaven,  where,  according  to 


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137 


them,  the  spirits  of  all  must  go  after 
death,  to  get  their  reward  or  punish- 
ment according  to  their  man-made  law, 
which,  we  say,  is  not  according  to  God’s 
law.  They  will  really  be  judged  accord- 
ing to  the  kind  of  life  that  they  had 
lived  while  in  the  body. 


CHAPTER  XX 


HOW  TO  SERVE  GOD 

There  is  only  one  way  that  you  can 
serve  God,  and  you  are  serving  Him 
that  way  every  day  of  your  life.  You 
cannot  help  yourself,  you  are  compelled 
to  serve  Him;  you  could  not,  or  would 
not,  live,  if  you  did  not,  or  could  not, 
serve  Him.  He  is  all  there  is  of  you. 
He  has  control  of  you,  night  and  day; 
no  matter  what  you  are  doing,  you  are 
serving  Him.  Whether  you  are  doing 
right  or  wrong,  you  are  serving  Him. 

The  only  God  you  serve  and  are  serv- 
ing is  the  God  within  you,  and  that  God 
is  Life.  We  cannot  live  without  Him, 


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139 


and  as  we  serve  Him  we  are  either  sad 
or  happy,  and  He  makes  us  feel  that 
way  for  serving  Him  the  way  we  do. 

The  best  way  to  serve  God  is  to  love 
that  God  who  is  within  you  with  all 
your  heart,  soul,  body,  and  strength, 
day  and  night,  not  in  a selfish  way,  but 
always  doing  right  for  right’s  sake  and 
doing  all  the  good  you  can  to  others. 
When  you  do  this  you  feel  happy,  for 
you  please  the  God  within  you,  the  only 
God  there  is. 

There  is  a world  within  every  one  of 
us,  and  we  are  living  in  that  world,  and 
our  God  is  also  living  in  that  world.  No 
person  can  live  in  any  other  world  but 
the  one  that  is  within  him.  Therefore,  if 
we  are  obedient  to  that  God,  and  listen 
to,  and  obey.  Him  and  serve  Him  to  the 
letter,  that  God  is  true,  and  will  give  us 


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justice  according  to  our  works. 

We  should  serve  God  in  prayer  and 
song  in  our  daily  walks  of  life,  and  He 
should  be  the  only  one  to  whom  we 
should  look  up.  If  we  will  love  Him  as 
we  should,  we  will  also  love  other  peo- 
ple, and  other  people  will  love  us.  The 
more  love  we  receive,  the  more  love  we 
can  impart  to  others,  and  the  more  we 
can  serve  God. 

We  do  not,  nor  can  we,  every  time 
we  pray,  worship  a God  who  is  far  off, 
for  the  God  who  is  within  us  is  the  only 
God  that  can,  or  will,  ever  answer 
prayer.  He  knows  our  wants  better 
than  any  one  else. 

We  should  bless  ourselves  and  every 
mouthful  of  food  or  drink  we  take,  and 
be  thankful  for  our  health  and  strength 
in  mind  and  body,  and  for  the  use  of 


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141 


them.  We  should  serve  Him,  and  be 
very  thankful  for  all  these  and  the 
many  other  blessings  that  are  bestowed 
on  us  all  through  life. 

We  should  serve  Him  by  doing  all 
the  good  we  can,  both  night  and  day, 
the  year  through,  all  over  the  world. 
We  should  serve  Him  on  arising  in  the 
morning,  at  the  breakfast,  dinner  and 
supper  tables,  and  on  retiring  at  night, 
in  prayers  like  these  or  somewhat 
similar : 

Morning  Prayer:  ‘‘We  do  thank 
Thee,  dear  Spirit  Friend,  for  the  health 
and  strength  of  the  night  that  is  past, 
for  this  beautiful  hour,  that  our  lives 
have  been  spared  and  that  we  are  per- 
mitted to  go  forth  into  the  world  an- 
other day.  Help  us  and  give  us 
strength,  so  that  we  may  do  our  work 


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faithfully,  and  impress  and  help  us  to 
do  the  right,  and  to  Thee  will  we  give 
praise.  Amen.’’ 

Prayer  at  the  breakfast  table:  “We 
thank  Thee,  dear  Spirit  Friend,  for  the 
m.any  blessings  v/e  have  enjoyed  in  the 
past,  and  the  health  and  strength  of 
this  hour.  We  thank  Thee  for  this  food 
that  is  before  us  and  the  good  that  it 
will  do  us.  Lead  us  aright.  This  we 
ask  in  the  name  of  Truth.  Amen.” 

Prayer  at  the  dinner  table : “Angels 
of  Love,  Vv^e  do  thank  You  for  all  the 
many  blessings  we  have  enjoyed  in  the 
past  and  the  health  and  strength  of  this 
hour.  We  thank  You  for  this  food  before 
us.  ¥/atch  over  us  all  through  our  com- 
ing days.  These  favors  we  ask.  Amen.” 

Prayer  at  the  supper  table:  “Dear 
loved  Ones  from  the  spirit  world,  we 


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143 


thank  You  that  we  were  able  to  do  our 
day’s  work  and  that  we  are  enjoying 
the  best  of  health.  We  thank  You  for 
this  food  that  is  before  us;  may  it  do 
us  all  good,  and  give  us  strength.  Lead, 
teach  and  direct  us  as  You  would  have 
us  go.  These  we  ask  in  the  name  of 
loved  ones.  Amen.” 

Prayer  on  retiring  at  night:  “We  do 
thank  You,  dear  Spirit  Friends,  that 
we  have  been  able  to  finish  our  day’s 
work,  and  for  the  health  and  strength 
that  we  have  enjoyed.  Be  with  us  and 
protect  us  this  night  and  help  us,  so 
that  we  may  arise  to  enjoy  the  bless- 
ings of  health  and  strength  and  the  use 
of  the  whole  body  while  in  this  sphere 
of  living.  Fill  us  with  Love  and  guide  us 
all  through  this  life.  All  this  we  ask  in 
the  name  of  the  Spirit  World.  Amen,” 


CHAPTER  XXI 


WHAT  WE  ARE  HERE  AND  IN  THE 
SPIRIT  WORLD 

Our  body,  at  birth,  is  like  a new 
house,  which  is  all  complete,  ready  to 
be  occupied,  and  the  door  wide  open. 
The  first  one  to  take  possession  of  the 
body,  or  house,  is  the  spirit  of  the  per- 
son who  is  to  have  control  of,  and  re- 
side in,  it.  At  birth,  the  spirit  of  life 
takes  possession  of  the  body  and  is  con- 
nected by  a spiritual  cord.  When  this 
cord  is  severed  the  spirit  leaves  the 
body ; then  so-called  death  takes  place. 

There  may  be  many  other  spirits 
who  temporarily  take  possession  of,  or 
impress,  the  body  during  this  time, 


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145 


either  with  or  without  the  consent  of 
the  spirit  of  life,  who  is  its  ego  or  per- 
sonality. As  the  persons  think,  they 
attract  that  class  of  spirits  around 
them,  who  impress  them  to  do  as  they 
did  or  wanted  to  do  while  living;  and 
we  shall  either  do  good  to  all  we  come 
in  contact  with,  or  we  shall  become  a 
curse. 

If  we  are  angry  and  see  evil  in 
everyone,  and  everything  always  goes 
wrong  with  us,  and  we  are  always  look- 
ing for  trouble,  and  wishing  we  and 
everyone  else  were  dead,  we  should  get 
rid  of  that  condition  by  driving  away 
that  spirit  of  evil  and  welcoming  a good 
spirit.  You  do  not  have  to  take  on  that 
evil  condition,  neither  is  it  necessary  to 
allow  that  evil  spirit  to  control  you  and 
cause  you  to  be  unhappy. 


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You  are  the  spirit  of  life  which  in- 
habits this  house,  or  this  body  of  clay, 
which  these  spirits,  either  good  or  evil, 
are  impressing  and  using.  Why  will 
you  allow  this  evil  spirit  to  remain? 
Drive  it  out!  Call  on  the  good  spirits! 
Think  only  good  thoughts,  and  you  will 
attract  the  good  to  you ; lead  clean,  pure 
lives,  so  that  you  will  attract  the  very 
best  of  conditions  and  spirits  to  you. 
Pray  more,  and  as  you  pray,  ask  for, 
and  call  on,  the  good  spirits  to  come 
and  help  you  lead  a good  life,  and  guide 
you  aright,  and  manifest  themselves  to 
you. 

Remember,  dear  Reader,  if  you  do 
not  know  what  Heaven  is,  and  if  you 
do  not  live  in  it  here,  you  will  not  know 
what  it  is  in  the  spirit  world.  You  may 
be  there  a long  time  before  you  will 


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147 


have  advanced  or  progressed  out  of 
that  condition  you  were  in,  when  you 
passed  over  there,  or  be  able  to  find 
Heaven,  or  the  sphere  of  good.  For  we 
are  here  what  we  shall  be  there,  and 
there,  what  we  are  here.  There  is  al- 
ways room  for  progression  here  in  this 
life,  and  in  the  spirit  world.  No  one 
is  perfect,  here  or  there.  Though  we 
may  do  good  today,  still  we  may  and 
can  do  more  tomorrow,  and  the  more 
good  we  do,  the  more  we  shall  progress 
here  and  in  the  spirit  world. 

There  are  many  blessings  here  and 
in  the  spirit  world  for  us  if  we  desire 
them.  We  are  placed  in  this  world  as 
our  own  free  moral  agent.  Even 
though  we  be  bound  to  others  in  a spir- 
itual sense,  still  we  are  free  to  think. 

We  were  not  consulted  about  our 


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coming  here,  but  if  we  have  grown  old 
enough  to  think,  and  to  be  responsible 
for  our  acts,  we  should  think  for  our- 
selves. 

Not  only  have  we  a material,  but 
we  have  a spiritual  body  to  care  for 
while  we  are  living  in  this  world,  and 
we  shall  be  held  responsible  for  the  use 
or  abuse  of  both  of  them.  They  are 
left  in  our  care.  We  must  give  an  ac- 
count of  our  material  body  and  not  al- 
low it  to  be  wrongly  used,  or  allow  spir- 
its or  anything  else,  to  injure  or  de- 
stroy it,  before  its  own  spirit  has  a 
chance  to  accomplish  its  own  work, 
which  it  should  do  while  living  here. 

People  take  their  own  lives  just  be- 
cause they  have  done  wrong,  or  are 
sick,  or  tired  of  living;  this  will  not 
keep  them  from  suffering,  or  paying 


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149 


the  penalty  of  their  wrong-doing  when 
they  pass  into  the  spirit  world.  They 
will  be  held  accountable  for  destroying 
their  bodies  and  taking  the  life  which 
did  not  belong  to  them  but  to  the  Giver 
of  all  life. 

God's  laws  are  just,  and  your  flesh 
will  be  compelled  to  bear  only  just  so 
much  pain;  then  you  will  become  un- 
conscious and  not  suffer  any  more 
while  in  that  condition.  If  a person 
had  suffered  all  the  pain  that  he  could 
have  borne  before  taking  his  own  life, 
he  would  have  been  in  such  a condition 
that  he  could  not  have  taken  it.  A per- 
son who  takes  his  own  life  because  he 
does  not  want  to  suffer,  is  a coward 
and  a murderer.  If  he  had  suffered  all 
he  could  bear  while  in  the  flesh,  on  pass- 


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ing  into  the  spirit  world  he  would  have 
been  happy. 

The  only  way  that  anyone  will  re- 
ceive a blessing  here,  or  in  the  spirit 
world,  is  to  do  good  at  all  times.  There 
are  many  blessings  here  waiting  for 
those  who  are  doing  good.  After  any- 
one has  done  all  the  good  he  can,  he  does 
not  need  to  seek  blessings,  for  they  are 
his,  and  are  waiting  for  him.  He  will 
get  them  in  due  time,  and  no  one  can 
take  his  reward  from  him. 


CHAPTER  XXII 


OUR  WORK  HERE  AND  IN  THE  SPIRIT 
WORLD 

The  body,  in  which  the  spirit  lives 
and  works,  is  material.  Everything  we 
see  in  this  material  world  with  our  ma- 
terial eyes,  is  material.  We  work  with 
our  material  hands  to  protect  our  ma- 
terial bodies,  and  when  our  material 
bodies  go  through  the  change  called 
“death,”  our  spirits  will  go  on  work- 
ing just  the  same  in  the  spirit  world; 
but,  instead  of  working  with  material 
things,  as  they  used  to  work  while  in 
our  material  bodies,  they  will  now  work 
with  spiritual  things,  and  will  do  or  try 
to  do  for  the  Spiritual  body,  the  same 


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as  they  did  before  for  the  material 
body,  and  will  try  to  find  some  one,  who 
is  still  living,  whom  they  can  impress 
to  do  the  same  as  they  did  while  living. 
We  reap  in  spirit  life  what  we  sow  in 
the  material  world. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  dead  life; 
life  cannot  die.  Whenever  there  is  life, 
there  is  motion ; and  wherever  there  is 
motion,  there  is  action.  Wherever  there 
is  life,  there  is  something  produced.  As 
soon  as  the  spirit  leaves  the  body,  it 
keeps  on  working  just  the  same  in  the 
spirit  world  as  though  it  were  living  in 
the  body. 

If,  while  living,  we  were  doing  good 
and  that  was  all  we  knew,  then,  when 
we  pass  into  the  spirit  world  we  take 
good  with  us,  and  we  continue  to  do 
good  by  going  to  those  who  are  living. 


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153 


trying  to  help  them,  and  impressing 
them  to  do  good.  Just  so,  if  we  did  evil 
and  that  was  all  we  knew  while  living ; 
then  evil  is  all  we  can  take  into  the 
spirit  world,  and  that  is  what  we  will 
try  to  impress  upon  whomever  we  can, 
to  do  just  what  we  did  while  we  were 
living. 

Mark  you,  our  spirit  is  alive,  and  it 
will  have  to  do  something,  and  that 
something  will  be  just  what  it  knew 
and  did  while  it  was  in  the  body, 
whether  good,  bad,  or  indifferent. 

All  of  this  comes  under  the  same  law, 
and  if  one  comes  under  this  law,  all 
must.  Whether  we  are  free  or  not,  while 
living,  we  do  either  good  or  evil.  We 
are  making  our  choice ; although  it  may 
be  contrary  to  our  will,  still  it  is  our 
choice.  We  lead  our  own  lives. 


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It  will  make  no  difference  after  we 
pass  out  whether  we  could  have  lived 
any  differently  or  not,  because  our  life 
is  spent;  we  have  run  our  race.  We 
cannot  choose,  then,  the  life  we  should 
have  lived,  for  it  is  too  late. 

Our  spirit  will,  and  must,  go  where 
it  belongs;  it  cannot  help  it,  for  as  it 
sowed,  it  will  reap  its  own  harvest.  Do 
not  ask  what  your  harvest  will  be,  for 
you  certainly  know  what  you  are  sow- 
ing while  here.  You  will  go  into  the 
spirit  world  whether  it  is  against  your 
will  or  not;  you  must  go  there,  and  will 
work  at  the  same  work  there  that  you 
did  while  living  here. 

If  a person  who  violates  the  laws  of 
your  city  is  arrested,  and  confesses  his 
guilt  and  is  sent  for  ten  years  to  prison, 
— when  he  has  served  his  term,  the 


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155 


gates  of  the  prison  are  opened  to  him 
and  he  walks  out  a free  man.  That 
same  judge  is  not  waiting  to  sentence 
him  again,  neither  is  the  one-time  pris- 
oner compelled  to  commit  another 
crime  and  be  sent  back  to  prison — there 
is  no  law  that  will  so  compel  him.  He 
walks  out  as  free  as  any  other  man, 
and  can  lead  a clean,  pure  life,  and  be 
a good  citizen. 

Just  so,  after  we  have  attempted  to 
violate  God’s  law,  if  we  have  not  suf- 
fered for  it  here,  although  the  world 
may  not  know  anything  about  it,  we 
will  have  to  suffer  for  it  there,  and 
after  paying  the  penalty  for  it  in  the 
spirit  world,  we  will  be  free  and  our 
spirit  will  progress  out  of  that  condi- 
tion. 

When  that  spirit  went  into  the  spirit 


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world,  it  carried  such  a condition  that 
when  it  came  in  contact  with  people  on 
the  earth-plane,  it  impressed  them  to 
do  the  same  evil  deeds  that  it  did  be- 
cause of  that  condition;  it  was. the  only 
way  that  spirit  could  do,  but  it  soon 
began  to  realize  that  it  must  pay  the 
penalty,  and  that  it  did  not  have  the 
same  privileges  as  the  other  spirits.  It 
could  see  that  it  had  done  wrong,  and 
commenced  to  do  right,  and  as  it  grad- 
ually progressed  out  of  its  evil  condi- 
tion, the  evil  was  changed  to  good,  and 
the  hatred  to  love;  and  now  it  would 
impress  others  to  do  the  same.  Love 
and  truth  will  prevail,  in  spite  of  all 
obstacles. 

While  in  this  life  we  are  working 
with  things  made  of  material  sub- 
stance; in  spirit  life  we  are  working 


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157 


with  things  made  of  spiritual  sub- 
stance. Whatever  we  are  working  at 
or  long  to  do  while  living  here,  just  as 
soon  as  we  have  passed  into  the  spirit 
world,  we  will  try  to  find  some  spirit 
there;  or  some  one  living  here,  whom 
we  can  impress  to  work  at  or  do  the 
same  thing  we  did,  or  longed  to  do, 
while  we  were  living. 

What  did  we  know  while  living? 
Only  a certain  kind  of  work,  and  in 
the  spirit  world  we  will  only  know  just 
what  we  have  learned  or  done  while 
here.  If  we  desire  to  progress  here, 
we  will  progress  there.  If  anyone  is 
forced  here  to  work  at  something  he 
did  not  like  to  do,  then,  when  his  spirit 
leaves  the  body,  it  will  go  and  do  the 
work  it  longed  to  do  while  living. 
Therefore,  our  work  in  the  spirit  world 


158  SOUL  SCIENCE 


depends  upon  our  work  here,  and  if  we 
have  not  attempted  to  violate  God’s 
laws  while  living,  we  can  change  our 
work  there.  If  we  have,  we  will  be 
compelled  to  go  and  stay  at  certain 
work  until  we  have  paid  for  our  wrong 
doing ; then  we  can  progress. 

When  a little  babe  passes  into  the 
spirit  world,  of  course  it  has  had  no 
time  or  chance  to  learn  here.  We  have 
told  you  in  other  chapters  that  spirits 
are  working,  helping  other  spirits  that 
are  in  need  of  help  in  the  spirit  world, 
or  trying  to  impress  mortals  to  do  just 
what  they  did  while  they  were  living. 
So,  in  the  spirit  world,  the  babes  are 
nursed,  watched  over  and  cared  for  by 
spirit  nurses.  Then  they  grow  up  and 
are  educated,  the  same  as  mortal  chil- 
dren. All  this  time,  the  nurse,  or  some 


OUR  WORK 


159 


other  spirit,  takes  and  shows  them  who 
their  parents  are,  and  when  they  are 
old  enough  and  have  finished  their  edu- 
cation, they  go  on  and  do  the  work  they 
want  to  do;  helping  other  spirits  or 
mortals,  and  filling  their  mission  of 
love. 

Remember,  each  spirit  is  doing  some- 
thing in  the  spirit  world.  Life  is  al- 
v/ays  active,  always  moving,  always 
progressing,  never  standing  still, 
neither  on  the  earth  plane  nor  in  the 
spirit  world.  Every  day  you  are  a day 
older,  and  your  body  is  changing,  and 
you  are  younger  today  than  you  ever 
will  be  again.  You  cannot  stop  the 
progression  of  life;  neither  can  you 
stop  working.  And  as  you  are  work- 
ing here  for  either  good  or  evil,  just  so 
you  will  work  in  the  spirit  world. 


CHAPTER  XXIII 


CALL  ON  THE  SPIRIT  AND  ASK  FOR 
WHAT  YOU  WANT 

Call  on  the  Spirit,  and  ask  for  what 
you  want;  do  not  think  or  expect  that 
it  will  come  and  do  your  work  while  you 
sit  around  with  your  arms  folded.  The 
spirit  forces  will  not  bother  themselves 
enough  about  you  to  wait  on  you,  or 
tell  you  your  wants,  or  what  you  should 
have,  or  ask  for.  They  have  enough 
other  things  to  attend  to,  helping  other 
people  who  know  what  they  want  and 
are  willing  to  ask  for  it ; it  is  your  place 
to  ask  for  yourself.  You  have  a mouth 
and  can  speak;  then  why  do  you  not 
ask  and  call  for  what  you  want? 


CALL  ON  THE  SPIRITS 


161 


If  you,  yourself,  do  not  know  what 
you  want,  pray  tell  me,  how  can  you 
expect  any  spirit  to  tell  you,  or,  what 
do  you  expect  to  get  or  have  come  to 
you?  If  you  only  knew  what  you  want- 
ed, it  might  probably  be  right  near  you 
now,  and  if  you  called  for  it  and  asked 
for  it,  it  might  help  you.  It  is  an  old 
saying,  but  it  is  true  today,  that  ‘‘any- 
thing that  is  not  worth  asking  for  is 
not  worth  having.” 

There  are  many  blessings  waiting  in 
store  for  people  if  they  live  aright  and 
ask  for  them  in  the  right  way.  There 
is  no  one  to  come  to  you  to  ask  what 
you  want;  neither  is  there  any  law  to 
force  you  to  ask ; that  is  your  privilege, 
as  we  have  told  you  in  other  chapters. 

It  is  not  the  faith  nor  belief  you  may 
have,  which  will  make  you  a happier 


162  SOUL  SCIENCE 


or  better  person,  but  the  good  works 
you  do.  Then  why  not  call  and  ask  for 
the  very  best  that  will  make  you  feel 
happier  and  better?  You  should  call 
on  the  loved  ones  in  spirit,  who  are 
ever  ready  to  help  you  through  your 
trials,  the  same  as  they  did  when  liv- 
ing in  their  bodies. 

Our  life  here  and  in  the  hereafter 
depends  only  upon  ourselves.  We  are 
placed  in  this  world  as  our  own  free 
moral  agent,  and  to  choose  what  we 
will.  There  is  everything  that  is  good 
in  this  world  for  us,  and  we  have  the 
right  to  ask  for,  or  choose,  it.  If  we 
do  not  ask,  how  can  v/e  expect  to  re- 
ceive? 

The  world  we  are  in  is  a great  store- 
house of  knowledge;  we  are  the  keep- 
ers of  the  same,  and  we  must  be  care- 


CALL  ON  THE  SPIRITS 


163 


ful  that  we  ask  for,  and  take,  some- 
thing good,  that  we  can  use,  for  it  will 
be  charged  to  us  in  the  hereafter,  and 
we  must  give  an  accounting  of  it;  for 
more  precious  than  anything  money 
can  buy  is  the  love,  joy  and  happiness 
that  we  create  by  the  use  of  it,  which 
will  be  in  the  hereafter  awaiting  us. 

We  are  the  only  ones  that  can  lead 
our  own  lives.  It  is  not  what  we  be- 
lieve that  will  make  us,  but  that  which 
we  do,  and  accomplish.  When  we  do 
right,  we  are  happy ; when  we  do 
Vv^rong,  we  are  sad.  Our  acts  make 
us  feel  happy,  or  sad,  according  to 
their  fruits,  and  our  deeds  are 
they  which  will  judge  us.  So  it 
will  be  seen  plainly,  that  we  are  the 
m.akers  of  our  own  happiness  and  des- 
tinies. If  I speak  a word  of  good  cheer 


164  SOUL  SCIENCE 


to  some  sorrowing  one,  and  thus  lighten 
his  burden,  I am  laying  up  joy  for  my- 
self hereafter.  I tell  him  how  beauti- 
ful this  world  is,  and  what  a grand 
place  it  is  to  live  in.  If  we  would  only 
seek  the  good  in  everything,  we  would 
be  happy ; if  we  had  not  been  thinking 
good  thoughts,  we  could  not  have  given 
tnis  word  of  cheer  to  him,  thus  making 
both  happier,  by  doing  good. 

We  can  impart  only  the  thought  that 
is  within  us,  and  the  only  way  that  we 
will,  or  can,  ever  get  any  good  thoughts 
v/ithin  us,  is  to  seek  them.  By  think- 
ing the  best  of  thoughts,  we  attract, 
and  make  the  best  condition  for,  the 
best  of  spirits  to  come  in  and  take  con- 
trol of  our  bodies.  Mark  you,  there  is 
some  kind  of  spirit  within  you  all  the 
time;  you  do  not  have  to  ask  anyone 


CALL  ON  THE  SPIRITS 


165 


what  kind  of  spirit  that  is.  You  know 
yourself  better  than  anyone  else  does. 
You  know  just  how  you  feel  when  you 
have  done  wrong  or  allowed  yourself 
to  take  on  some  one  else’s  condition, 
v/ho  used  to  feel  sad ; and  if  you  will  al- 
low yourself  to  take  on  a condition  that 
causes  you  to  be  sad,  that  is  your  weak- 
ness; you  are  doing  wrong,  when  you 
could  just  as  well  feel  happy.  You  think 
as  you  feel,  and  feel  as  you  think ; you 
attract  to  you,  and  as  you  attract,  that 
spirit  takes  possession  of  you  and  that 
is  just  what  you  are.  You  can  either 
laugh  or  sing,  or  cry,  it  is  for  you  to 
choose ; they  are  all  around  you.  Then, 
why  not  call  on  the  good  spirits  and  ask 
for  what  you  want? 

How  glorious  this  beautiful  world  is, 
after  all?  We  can  look  about  us  with 


166  SOUL  SCIENCE 


our  natural  eyes,  and  see  what  Mother 
Earth  is  producing,  and  the  wonderful 
work  of  nature.  Then,  without  mov- 
ing out  of  our  way,  we  can  see,  with 
our  spiritual  eyes — if  we  have  them 
open — the  dear  ones  who  passed  into 
the  spirit  world,  who  are  all  around  us ; 
and  yet,  you  say  this  world  is  not 
worth  living  in! 

Oh,  if  you  could  only  remove  the 
scales  of  ignorance  from  your  material 
eyes,  and  remove  that  thin  veil  in  front 
of  your  spiritual  eyes,  that  hinders  you 
from  seeing  and  knowing  all  about  this 
beautiful  world  that  you  are  living  in, 
you  would  not  have  to  acquire  faith  or 
belief  in  anything,  but  you  would  see 
and  know,  and  be  able  to  talk  to  those 
in  spirit-life,  and  get  all  the  informa- 
tion that  you  want  for  yourself.  You 


CALL  ON  THE  SPIRITS 


167 


would  know  then,  that  your  life  de- 
pends upon  what  you  do,  that  you  are 
responsible  for  it;  ignorance  or  no  ig- 
norance, or  whatever  your  plea  may  be, 
you  will  get  your  reward,  good  or  ill, 
according  to  your  works  whils  living 
in  the  material  body,  whether  you  have 
used  your  spirit  eyes  or  not.  They  have 
been  given  to  you  to  use,  but  no  one  can 
compel  you  to  use  them ; that  is  for  you 
to  choose.  You  can  be  either  happy  or 
sad;  it  is  your  choice.  You  are  either 
one  or  the  other ; it  is  a one-sided  ques- 
tion. If  you  do  not  use  your  spirit 
right,  and  are  not  happy  here  in  this 
life,  you  will  not  be  happy  in  the  next. 
By  calling  on  the  good  spirits  and  ask- 
ing for  what  you  want,  they  will  teach 
you  the  way. 


CHAPTER  XXIV 


WHO  ANSWERS  PRAYER 

We  answer  our  own  prayer,  for  when 
we  pray  for  good  we  attract  good  to  us. 
Good  takes  control  of  us,  and  we  are 
good  through  and  through. 

When  you  are  hungry  you  pray  for 
something  to  eat.  You  do  not  sit  down 
and  wait  for  an  angel  to  bring  you  the 
food,  but  you  v/ill  seek  it;  and  when 
you  find  it,  you  will  not  pray  for  some 
one  to  put  it  in  your  mouth  but  you  will 
do  that  yourself. 

Who  sought,  found,  and  ate  the  food? 
You  did!  Who  answered  your  prayer? 
You  did!  We  are  the  only  ones  that 


WHO  ANSWERS  PRAYER? 


169 


can  answer  our  prayers;  we  are  the 
only  ones  that  can  eat,  live  or  die  for 
ourselves. 

Every  person  who  wants  to  do  right 
should  keep  it  in  his  mind ; that  should 
be  his  prayer,  day  and  night;  that 
should  be  the  one  thought  in  his  mind 
and  the  one  word  on  his  lips.  “I  want 
to  do  right ; help  me,  dear  Spirit,  I pray 
Thee.”  During  the  day,  and  when  you 
retire  at  night,  if  your  prayer  is:  ‘T 
want  to  do  right,”  so  long  as  you  keep 
that  thought  in  your  mind,  there  is  no 
room  for  evil,  for  right  and  good  have 
control  of  you. 

One’s  life  here  should  be  a life  of 
prayer,  because  our  life  and  happiness, 
here  and  in  the  spirit  world,  depend  on 
it.  A life  of  prayer  is  the  only  kind  of 
life  worth  living.  It  is  true,  we  can 


170  SOUL  SCIENCE 


pray  to  do  right  one  minute  and  can  do 
wrong  the  next,  but  if  we  keep  the 
thought  of  “right”  on  our  minds  con- 
tinually, we  cannot  do  wrong,  for  right 
will  be  with  us  as  long  as  we  call  for  it. 

If  we  would  pray  and  bless  every- 
thing, and  do  right,  instead  of  being 
cross  and  complaining  about  this  or 
that — having  poor  health  or  experienc- 
ing financial  losses — all  the  time  look- 
ing on  the  dark  side  of  life  and  wishing 
we  and  everybody  else  were  dead, — if, 
as  we  have  said,  we  would  pray  for 
light  and  help,  we  would  receive  them. 
We  should  always  bless  the  good,  and 
pray,  and  be  thankful  that  our  lot  is  no 
worse  than  it  is. 

Bless  everything  you  eat,  and  keep 
your  mind  on  it;  and  do  not  sit  down 
to  the  table  to  eat  when  you  are  angry, 


WHO  ANSWERS  PRAYER? 


171 


for  you  will  not  take  time  to  properly 
masticate  your  food.  You  will  eat  too 
fast.  Then  after  awhile  you  will  have 
trouble  with  your  stomach  and  wonder 
what  is  the  matter  with  you ; that  is  not 
your  stomach’s  fault,  but  yours,  for 
abusing  it.  Pray  for,  and  seek,  only 
the  good  that  is  in  everything ; and  the 
spirit  forces  will  help  and  bless  you. 
The  spirit  forces  desire  that  you  pray 
for  their  help,  not  only  on  Sunday,  but 
on  every  day  in  the  week. 


CHAPTER  XXV 


WHAT  DO  SPIRITS  KNOW? 

There  is  no  one  living  who  knows  all 
that  is  going  on  in  his  own  city.  He 
may  read  the  newspapers,  or  receive 
letters  and  telegrams,  still  he  does  not 
know  it  all,  for  people  are  working,  and 
they  have  no  time  to  go  from  house  to 
house  to  find  out  what  others  are  do- 
ing. It  is  true,  they  will  talk  with  those 
with  whom  they  are  working,  and  if 
these  feel  like  it,  they  may  tell  about 
themselves.  Then  they  know  only  just 
what  they,  and  those  they  are  working 
with,  are  doing.  It  is  just  so  with  the 
spirits  in  the  spirit  world ; everyone  has 


WHAT  DO  SPIRITS  KNOW? 


173 


his  work  to  do,  and  has  no  time  to  go 
around  and  see  what  is  going  on. 

As  we  have  told  you  in  other  chap- 
ters, there  are  messengers  in  the  spirit 
world,  and  when  a messenger  is  wanted 
to  take  a message  from  one  part  of  that 
world  to  another,  one  of  these  takes  the 
message  and  delivers  it.  That  is  the 
way  spirits  get  the  news  they  give  to 
mortals,  unless  it  is  something  right  in 
and  around  where  the  spirits  are  work- 
ing, then  they  can  receive  the  message 
themselves,  without  sending  a messen- 
ger. Therefore,  all  that  spirits  know  is 
what  they  themselves  see,  or  receive 
from  the  other  spirits  that  are  around 
them. 

The  spirit  that  gives  the  message 
may  be  truthful,  but  it  may  not  know 
anything  about  the  spirit  from  whom  it 


174  SOUL  SCIENCE 


receives  it.  It  takes  for  granted  that 
the  other  spirit  is  telling  the  truth ; or 
it  may  be  that  the  spirit  messenger  was 
misinformed,  that  the  message  it  re- 
ceived and  delivered  was  not  true.  But 
other  spirits  should  not  be  blamed ; any 
more  than  you  should  be  blamed  for  re- 
peating something  you  might  have 
heard  and  told  as  truth,  which,  when 
investigated,  was  proven  false. 

Every  time  a spirit  comes  to  you 
with  a message,  or  tries  to  manifest  to 
you,  do  not  drive  the  spirit  away,  but 
try  to  prove  its  message  and  see  wheth- 
er it  is  true  or  not.  If  it  is  not  true  do 
not  bother  with  that  spirit,  nor  believe 
it,  until  you  have  proven  that  the  mes- 
sage or  manifestation  is  true ; then  wek 
come  it. 

You  cannot  tell  by  the  looks  of  a 


WHAT  DO  SPIRITS  KNOW? 


175 


spirit  whether  he  is  stating  the  truth  or 
not,  until  you  have  received,  tried,  and 
proven  the  truth  of  his  message.  When 
you  receive  a telegram  from  any  part 
of  the  country,  you  do  not  ask  or  care 
who  the  messenger  is,  or  what  his  past 
life  has  been,  or  what  he  looks  like,  or 
whether  he  can  tell  the  truth  or  not,  so 
long  as  he  brings  the  message;  or,  if 
you  are  in  need,  you  do  not  care  who  the 
person  is,  or  how  he  looks,  that  helps 
you,  provided  you  receive  the  help ; that 
is  all  you  ask.  Therefore,  there  is  no 
one  living  here,  nor  in  the  spirit  world, 
who  knows  all ; neither  is  there  any  one 
perfect  here,  or  there. 


CHAPTER  XXVI 


CLOTHING  AND  CHARACTERISTICS 
OF  SPIRITS 

It  makes  no  difference  whether  yon 
are  standing  upright,  or  are  ill  in  bed, 
or  unconscious,  or  with  all  your  rela- 
tives and  friends  around  you,  either 
day  or  night,  the  moment  so-called 
Death  takes  place,  your  spirit  will  leave 
its  “earthly  house,”  which  is  your  body, 
at  which  time  it  will  be  clothed  with  its 
spiritual  clothing,  which  you  have  al- 
ways carried  with  you.  The  appear- 
ance of  your  spiritual  clothing  will  de- 
pend very  much  upon  the  kind  of  life 
you  have  lived;  whether  it  was  clean, 
pure,  beautiful  and  full  of  good  deeds, 


CLOTHING  AND  CHARACTERISTICS  177 


or  was  clouded  by  evil  deeds  and 
thoughts.  Also,  the  appearance  of  it 
will  be  marked  by  the  color  and  style  of 
clothing  you  formerly  wore,  and  the 
colors  that  were  your  favorites,  as  these 
will  be  the  means  your  spirit  will  use  to 
show  your  individuality,  and  by  which 
you  may  be  recognized  by  your  earthly 
friends. 

After  your  spirit  has  assumed  the 
clothing  which  you  have  provided  for 
it  while  you  were  living,  although  you 
may  see  other  spirits  with  brighter  and 
more  beautiful  raiment  than  yours,  you 
cannot  change  the  appearance  of  yours, 
for  that  is  the  result  of  your  past  life, 
and  there  is  no  one  who  can  exchange 
with  you,  for  all  must  wear  the  raiment 
which  they  have  provided  for  them- 
selves. 


178  SOUL  SCIENCE 


When  you  go  into  the  spirit  world, 
you  will  go  to  your  own  home,  which 
you  have  builded  by  your  thoughts,  acts 
and  deeds,  while  living  in  your  earthly 
house  or  body.  Your  spirit  also  will 
seek  the  companionship  of  those  who 
thought,  and  did,  the  same  as  you, 
either  good  or  evil,  and  will  remain  in 
that  condition  until  it  has  progressed 
to  a higher  one.  If  your  spirit,  while 
in  that  condition,  is  able  to  communi- 
cate with  mortals,  it  will  try  to  impress 
them  to  do  the  same  deeds  as  you  did 
while  living.  These  conditions  are  nat- 
ural and  cannot  be  broken,  as  they  are 
God’s  law;  namely:  “That  as  a man 
sows,  so  must  he  reap.” 

If,  while  in  earth-life,  a person  has 
done  that  which  was  right,  doing  unto 
others  as  he  would  that  they  should  do 


CLOTHING  AND  CHAKACTERISTICS  179 

unto  him,  and  has  done  all  the  good  he 
knew  how  to  do,  to  his  fellow-creatures, 
both  temporally  and  spiritually,  that  is 
all  that  God  requires  of  any  one,  and 
he  has  fulfilled  his  life’s  mission.  Then, 
when  he  passes  into  the  spirit  world,  he 
will  be  free  to  go  wherever  he  wishes, 
and  will  not  be  compelled  to  remain  in 
the  company  of  any  certain  class  of 
spirits ; nor  with  those  who  had  led  un- 
clean lives,  who  will  have  to  stay  in  a 
certain  place,  under  certain  conditions, 
until  they  have  progressed  beyond  their 
evil  deeds,  and  are  fit  to  mingle  with 
those  of  higher  conditions,  when  they 
too,  will  be  free  to  go  where  they  will. 
If  a person,  while  living,  did  evil  deeds, 
his  spirit  will  seek  those  in  the  earth- 
life  who  do  such  deeds,  and  will  seek 
to  impress,  and  be  a guide  to,  such  per- 


180  SOUL  SCIENCE 


sons,  thus  satisfying  the  spirit’s  evil 
desires. 

Like  attracts  like,  and  as  a man 
thinks,  so  is  he,  and  that  is  the  kind  of 
spirits  he  attracts  to  himself,  and  that 
is  what  his  life  will  be.  If  a person, 
while  in  the  flesh,  did  only  evil  deeds,  it 
would  not  be  natural  for  him,  when  he 
became  a spirit,  to  desire  the  company 
of  those  mortals  who  were  living  clean, 
pure  lives;  rather  will  he  desire  to  be 
with  those  who  are  evil,  that  he  may 
impress,  and  use,  them,  and  cause  them 
to  do  as  he  did  or  desired  to  do  while 
living. 

Usually  the  spirits  of  those  who  in 
their  earth-life  were  good,  noble,  and 
pure,  do  not  seek  to  impress  mortals 
who,  unlike  themselves,  are  given  to 
deeds  of  darkness,  but  they  may  mani- 


CLOTHING  AND  CHARACTERISTICS  181 

fest  to  such,  if  they  wish,  and  feel  that 
it  is  their  duty  to  do  so,  and  desire  to 
lift  such  mortals  from  the  evil  of  their 
ways.  It  is  much  easier  for  those 
higher  spirits  to  manifest  themselves 
to  mortals  who  are  living  unclean,  evil 
lives,  than  it  is  for  those  spirits  of  evil- 
doers to  manifest  to  mortals  of  clean, 
pure  lives;  because  the  pure,  good  and 
noble  spirits  have  learned,  while  living, 
to  overcome  temptation  and  have  pro- 
gressed spiritually ; whereas  the  evil  or 
ignorant  spirits,  while  on  earth,  cared 
nothing  for  the  things  of  the  spirit  life, 
or  if  they  did  know  about  them,  wil- 
fully sinned.  So  when  they  have  taken 
their  places  in  the  spirit  world,  they 
must  suffer,  and  pay  the  penalty  of 
their  wrong-doing.  Thus  they  are  more 


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easily  attracted  to  those  like  themselves 
in  the  earth-life. 

Therefore,  it  can  easily  be  seen,  that 
if  mortals  would  only  cultivate  and  use 
their  spirit-eyes,  they  could  see  these 
impure  spirits  who  are  all  around 
them,  and  who,  when  these  mortals  are 
thinking  or  doing  evil  deeds,  are  drawn 
to  them  and  further  impress  them  to 
continue  in  evil.  If  they  would  use  their 
spirit-eyes  they  could  see  the  dark,  evil 
appearance  of  these  spirits  and  thus 
avoid,  and  protect  themselves  from, 
them,  through  life. 


CHAPTER  XXVII 


THE  DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  SPIRIT  AND 
THOUGHT 

A person  may  be  walking  along  the 
street  or  sitting  in  his  home  when  sud- 
denly the  thought  of  some  one  who  is 
living  may  impress  itself  upon  his  mind 
so  that  he  seems  to  perceive  his  pres- 
ence. Possibly  he  may  not  have  seen 
or  heard  from  that  individual  for  a 
long  time,  yet  as  he  keeps  on  walking, 
or  whatever  else  he  may  be  doing,  soon 
he  will  com.e  face  to  face  with  him,  or 
the  person  may  call  to  see  him  unexpec- 
tedly at  his  home. 

People  think ; they  cannot  help  them- 
selves ; but  they  are  not  obliged  to  take 


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on  any  particular  thought.  If  they 
take  on  some  one  else’s  thought  or  con- 
dition they  can  throw  that  off.  They 
send  out  their  thought  wherever  they 
go,  and  whoever  may  come  in  touch 
with  that  thought,  it  will  either  picture 
itself  on  the  person’s  mind,  so  that  he 
will  see  the  other  party  as  though  he 
were  standing  in  front  of  him,  or  it  will 
impress  that  person  in  some  way  or 
other,  which  may  cause  him  to  do  or  say 
things  he  would  not  have  said  or  done 
had  he  not  come  in  line  or  in  contact 
with  that  thought. 

When  you  make  up  your  mind  to  go 
to  a place,  you  think  about  that  place, 
and,  as  you  think,  you  send  out  a 
thought.  The  thought  goes  ahead  of 
you, — directly  to  the  place  to  which  you 
had  been  thinking  of  going.  It  does  not 


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jump  over  this  or  that  house,  down  this 
or  that  alley  or  street,  but  it  will  go 
directly  to  the  place  to  which  you  were 
thinking  of  going;  and  if  any  one  you 
know  should  happen  to  be  on  the  street 
in  direct  line  with  your  thought,  it 
would  picture  itself  so  on  his  mind  that 
he  v/ould  see  you  and  think  about  you. 

So,  inasmuch  as  thoughts  are  things, 
whenever  you  send  out  a thought  you 
send  out  that  part  of  yourself  which 
has  force,  power  and  strength,  and  can 
be  seen  by  the  sensitive;  if  not,  people  | 
could  not  or  would  not  see  and  think  i 
about  one  another  the  way  they  do  be- 
fore they  meet  them  face  to  face  with- 
out an  appointment. 

When  a Doctor  has  a very  sick  pa- 
tient, he  will  not  allow  any  one  to  come 
into  the  sick  room  to  talk  to  or  see  the 


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patient.  Why?  Because  it  would  make 
the  patient  weaker,  as  it  takes  away  so 
much  of  his  strength  to  talk.  There- 
fore, whenever  any  one  speaks,  he  is 
sending  out  and  giving  away  his 
strength,  which  is  part  of  himself. 

Around  every  person  are  thoughts  of 
the  living  and  the  dead,  since  every  per- 
son is  thinking  about  some  one  else. 
Every  person,  while  living,  thinks  and 
sends  forth  thoughts.  These  thoughts 
live  on  after  the  death  of  the  person, 
remain  here,  and,  becoming  manifest  to 
the  sensitive,  are  often  seen  around 
people  who  sometimes  describe  them  as 
‘‘spirits.”  The  more  a person  thinks 
about  you,  the  more  thoughts  he  is 
sending  out;  and  also  the  more 
thoughts  of  different  people  that  are 
around  you,  and  the  stronger  the  con- 


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187 


ditions,  the  easier  it  is  for  those  who 
are  sensitive,  to  take  on,  or  see  and  de- 
scribe the  conditions,  or  what  they  call 
“spirits”  around  you,  though  in  reality, 
they  do  not  see  a “spirit.”  What  they 
do  see  is  the  thoughts,  which  are  a part 
of  the  living,  and  thus  take  on  the  ap- 
pearance and  condition  of  the  living, 
and  of  those  who  were  thinking  such 
thoughts,  had  sent  them  forth,  and,  as 
the  sensitive  see  it,  they  “sense”  and 
see  something  which  they  call  “spirit.” 
Instead  of  the  “spirit”  it  is  the  thought 
pictured  before  them  that  they  see. 

Thoughts  are  things,  and  things  can 
be  seen.  So  if  one  thought  will  picture 
itself  so  strongly  on  one’s  mind  that 
when  he  walks  along  the  street  with- 
out a thought  of  any  certain  person, 
that  person’s  thought  is  pictured  on  his 


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mind  as  plainly  as  though  he  were  in 
front  of  him,  how  much  easier  must  it 
be  to  see  the  thoughts — or  pictures — 
around  several  persons  when  in  their 
company ! 

By  the  sensitive  not  understanding 
the  spiritual  laws,  and  because  of  their 
not  having  their  spirit  eyes  opened,  or 
if  their  spiritual  eyes  were  open,  even 
then,  it  is  very  difficult  to  tell  the  differ- 
ence between  the  spirit  of  one  who  did 
not  know  anything  about  the  spiritual 
laws  before  he  passed  out  of  life  (as 
we  have  explained  in  other  chapters) 
and  the  thoughts  which  take  shape  and 
form  and  can  be  seen  around  people  by 
a sensitive  person.  Because  the  out- 
lines or  forms  of  such  spirits  are  too 
weak  to  be  revealed  plainly,  it  is  very 
difficult  to  distinguish  the  difference 


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189 


between  the  thoughts  of  people  which 
are  pictured  on  our  minds  and  the  spir- 
its that  we  see  around  people.  This  is 
one  reason  why  we  have  written  the 
chapter,  “Never  Describe  or  Give 
Spirit  Messages  in  Public.” 


CHAPTER  XXVIII 


NEVER  DESCRIBE  OR  GIVE  A SPIRIT  MES- 
SAGE IN  PUBLIC 

Never  describe,  or  give  a spirit  mes- 
sage, or  try  to  give  out  what  you  see 
around  people  spiritually,  in  a public 
meeting ; because  you  will  not  be  under- 
stood, and  there  will  be  those  present 
who  will  hear  you,  but  will  not  under- 
stand how,  or  why,  you  are  able  to  see 
and  describe  what  you  see  around  them, 
when  they  themselves  cannot  do  so. 
Why?  Because  they  have  not  had  these 
spiritual  lav/s  explained  to  them.  Re- 
member, it  is  for  you  to  teach  the  people 
how  to  live  aright,  and  to  read,  study 
and  practice  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of 


MESSAGES  IN  PUBLIC 


191 


Life  after  Death.”  Then  they  will 
themselves  be  able  to  see  and  receive 
the  proof  of  life  after  death. 

The  main  object  of  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death”  is  to  teach 
the  people  how  to  open  their  spirit 
eyes,  v/hich  God  has  given  them  to  use, 
so  that  they  can  see  the  spirits  and  will 
know  how  to  attract  the  good  spirits 
to  and  around  them;  which  will  make 
them  happier  here,  and  in  the  spirit 
world.  The  giving  out,  to  any  one, 
of  what  you  see,  or  the  spirit  message 
you  receive  from  some  spirit  in  the 
spirit  world,  will  never  teach  him  how 
to  live  aright  and  be  a better  person,  or 
how  to  open  his  spirit  eyes  to  see  and 
know  what  spirits  are  around  him. 

It  is  true  you  may  receive  a spirit 
message  from  a loved  one  in  the  spirit 


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world,  which  may  make  you  feel  very 
happy  for  the  time  being.  But,  at  the 
same  time,  if  that  same  person,  who  de- 
livered to  you  the  message,  were  to  ex- 
plain to  you  how  you  can  open  your 
spirit  eyes  and  see  for  yourself,  and 
assure  you  that  you  can  and  would  be 
able  to  see  spirits  and  receive  messages 
from  them  at  any  or  all  times,  would 
you  not  be  a happier  person?  When 
your  spirit  eyes  are  open,  such  opening 
will  prove  the  continuity  of  life,  thus 
making  you  happier  and  better  here, 
and  in  the  spirit  world. 

You  will  remember  that  we  have 
told  you  in  other  chapters  that  our  life 
and  happiness  in  the  spirit  world  do 
not  depend  upon  what  some  one  else 
may  say  or  do,  nor  on  what  we  believe, 
but  upon  what  we  ourselves  do.  There- 


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193 


fore  all  the  messages  we  may  receive  in 
this  world  will  never  teach  us  how  to  be 
happy,  nor  make  us  any  happier  here, 
or  in  the  spirit  world. 

As  we  can  only  think  one  thought, 
and  speak  one  word,  at  a time,  instead 
of  giving  a message  or  describing  what 
we  see  around  people  at  the  meetings, 
the  time  would  be  better  spent  in  tell- 
ing and  explaining  to  them  how  they 
can  see  the  same  as  we  can  if  they  un- 
derstand the  spiritual  laws.  Life  is  so 
short,  and  time  so  precious,  we  should 
direct  all  our  thoughts  and  words 
where  they  will  do  the  most  good.  So 
by  telling  and  explaining  to  them  how 
to  live  and  how  to  think  and  do  right, 
and  how  to  open  their  spirit  eyes  to  see 
for  themselves,  you  teach  them  how 
they  may  live  happier  lives. 


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Suppose  you  were  in  a meeting  of  a 
thousand  persons,  and  you  were  to  give 
one  of  those  persons  a spirit  message 
v^^hich  that  person  would  recognize  at 
once ; no  doubt  that  individual  would  be 
pleased,  but  none  of  the  other  nine  hun- 
dred and  ninety  nine  persons  present 
v/ould  know  whether  the  message  given 
was  true  or  false,  neither  would  they 
understand  the  message.  By  giving 
one  person  the  message,  you  have  made 
that  one  person  happy,  whereas  had  you 
spent  that  same  amount  of  time  ex- 
plaining to  the  entire  thousand  persons 
how  they  could  all  see  spirits  with  their 
spirit  eyes,  if  they  had  them  opened, 
you  would  then  have  made  the  one  thou- 
sand persons  happy  all  through  life  in- 
stead of  one  person  pleased  for  a short 
while. 


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195 


No  one  can  use  your  spirit  eyes  but 
you.  They  are  given  for  your  use  ex- 
clusively, and  if  you  do  not  use  them 
you  cannot,  or  will  not,  be  happy  here 
or  in  the  spirit  world.  Because  you 
do  not  use  these  eyes  that  are  given  to 
you  to  use  every  day  of  your  life  in  your 
business,  your  home,  and  your  family 
circle,  either  day  or  night,  you  are  rob- 
bing yourself. 

Still  you  must  carry  those  eyes 
around  with  you,  whether  you  use  them 
or  not.  They  are  yours,  and  belong  to 
you,  and  if  you  do  not  use  them  you  are 
not  protecting  your  spiritual  body,  and 
will  have  to  pay  the  penalty  for  not 
having  accomplished  your  life’s  mis- 
sion, which  is,  to  use  that  which  you 
have,  and  to  help  to  do  all  the  good  you 
can  to  those  who  need  your  assistance. 


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The  only  way  that  you  can  accomplish 
this,  your  work  of  service  to  mankind, 
is  to  use  your  spirit  eyes.  Then  you 
will  be  able  to  see  what  spirits  are 
around  you,  and  around  those  whom 
jJu  meet;  then  you  will  be  so  happy 
that  you  will  be  unable  to  keep  it  to 
yourself,  and  will  tell  it  to  the  world, 
thus  making  others  happy. 

You  will  also  see  and  know  where 
the  spirit  world  is,  and  who  and  where 
God  is;  you  will  do  more  and  better 
deeds,  v/ill  love,  and  be  loved  by,  all, 
and  will  realize  how  precious  and  sweet 
life  is  to  you,  and  should  be  to  all. 


CHAPTER  XXIX 


HOW  TO  HOLD  CLASSES  AND  CALL  ON 
AND  COMMUNICATE  WITH  SPIRITS 

Classes  should  be  held  in  every  home 
for  the  development  of  the  spiritual 
sight,  and  that  would  make  the  home  a 
haven  of  rest.  After  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death”  has  been 
thoroughly  read,  explained  and  under- 
stood in  the  home,  as  to  how  the  spirits 
are  around  people,  how  we  can,  and 
why  every  person  should  be  able  to,  see 
spirits  with  the  spirit  eyes,  then  class- 
es should  be  formed;  after  which  they 
will  be  ready  and  able  to  understand 
whatever  the  spirit  is  trying  to  mani- 
fest to  them. 


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When  a person  who  has  met  with  an 
accident  and  has  lost  a limb,  passes  into 
spirit  life,  he  will  have  the  use  of  the 
limb  in  the  spirit  world  that  he  lost  in 
earth  life,  but  when  he  appears  to  his 
mortal  friends  in  spirit  he  will  appear 
just  as  he  did  when  he  last  saw  them, 
that  is,  without  the  limb. 

Just  so  when  a babe  passes  out  of  this 
life,  it  grows  to  the  same  height, 
weight,  color  of  hair,  and  complexion 
it  would  have  had,  had  it  lived  and 
grown  to  maturity  on  the  earth  plane, 
but  when  it  appears  to  its  mother,  years 
afterward,  it  will  appear  as  a babe,  so 
that  its  mother  can,  and  will,  recognize 
it  as  she  last  saw  it,  a babe.  If  it  were 
to  appear  as  an  adult,  the  mother  could 
not,  and  would  not,  recognize  her  own 
child. 


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199 


The  spirits  cannot,  or  will  not,  mani- 
fest in  the  home,  unless  you  make  the 
conditions  right  for  them ; therefore  the 
manifestation  depends  upon  your- 
selves, not  the  spirits.  The  spirits  can- 
not, or  will  not,  manifest  to  you  or  any- 
one else  under  adverse  conditions.  Re- 
member, spirits  do  not  have  to  mani- 
fest to  you  just  because  you  want  them 
to  do  so,  or  think  they  should. 

When  you  sit  in  the  class  to  develop, 
you  should  dress  neatly,  and  not  have 
any  strong  odor  of  tobacco  or  anything 
else  on  your  clothing.  You  would  not 
want  anyone  to  visit  you  in  that  way, 
neither  do  the  spirits  want,  or  expect, 
you  to  call  on  them  that  way,  for  they 
are  very  sensitive,  and  are  unable  to 
manifest  to  you  under  such  conditions. 
The  best  is  none  too  good  for  you,  or  the 


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spirits,  and  by  your  dressing  neatly, 
and  by  your  thinking  good  thoughts, 
and  taking  the  very  best  thoughts  with 
you,  you  are  helping  the  spirits  to  man- 
ifest to  you  and  to  others  in  the  class. 

Do  not  go  to  the  class,  or  sit  in  the 
class,  just  to  see  what  kind  of  spirit 
message  you  will  receive,  or  how  the 
spirits  will  manifest  there.  If  that  is 
all  you  go  for,  stay  at  home;  for  you 
will  take  with  you,  and  establish,  such 
a condition  that  the  others  will  not  be 
able  to  get  good  results. 

If  there  are  good  conditions  in  the 
class,  each  person  should  be  able  to  see 
and  communicate  with  spirits  in  the 
spirit  world,  not  only  in  the  class  room, 
but  at  all  times,  by  spiritual  under- 
standing, if  he  will  take  time  to  read 
and  understand  this  book,  “Soul  Sci- 


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201 


ence,  the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death.” 
Therefore,  you  do  not  have  to  go  to  an- 
other person  to  receive  communications 
from  your  loved  ones,  for  they  are  all 
around  you,  as  explained  in  other  chap- 
ters, doing  all  they  can  to  manifest  to 
you.  If  you  do  not  or  cannot,  receive  a 
communication  from  your  loved  ones, 
it  is  because  you  are  ignorant  of  the 
spiritual  laws.  You  have  spiritual  eyes, 
and  if  you  do  not  use  them,  you 
will  suffer  for  it.  God  has  given  those 
eyes  to  you  for  your  use,  and  unless  you 
use  them  you  are  robbing  your  spirit, 
hindering  its  progress,  and  preventing 
the  fulfillment  of  its  mission  here. 

Make  up  your  mind  in  advance  as  to 
the  time  when  you  want  to  call  on  the 
spirit  you  wish  to  see  or  communicate 
with;  and  keep  thinking  about  that 


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spirit  that  you  desire  to  manifest  to 
you ; that  will  help  to  attract  that  spirit 
to  you,  and  will  help  to  open  your  spirit 
eyes,  that  you  may  have  a better  spirit- 
ual understanding. 

After  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of 
Life  after  Death”  has  been  thoroughly 
read  and  understood,  as  already  stated, 
classes  should  be  held  in  homes,  once  a 
week,  calling  on  the  “Good  Spirits”  to 
come  and  help  you  all  to  see  spiritual- 
ly. While  you  are  all  sitting  in  the 
class,  do  not  talk  about  the  work  of 
every  day,  but  keep  your  mind  on  the 
“Good  Spirits.”  You  should  all  soon 
begin  to  see,  hear,  “sense,”  or  receive, 
some  impression,  while  sitting  in  the 
class,  which  should  prove  to  you  all, 
that  the  spirits  are  around,  trying  to 


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203 


impress  you  and  communicate  with 
you. 

As  soon  as  you  commence  to  sit  in  the 
class,  you  should  all  sing  and  pray,  as 
directed  in  Chapter  XXXIX  of  ‘^Soul 
Science,”  then  sit  quietly,  and  if  any- 
one speaks,  he  should  speak  only  about 
spirits  or  what  he  is  receiving  from  the 
spirit  forces.  If  the  spirits  were  not 
there,  you  could  not  have  thought  or 
talked  about  them.  Every  time  you 
think  about  a spirit,  the  spirit  must  be 
there,  or  you  could  not  have  thought  or 
talked  about  it.  Everything  you  talk 
or  think  about  must  exist;  if  not,  you 
could  not  talk  about  it. 

"Whenever  you  think  about  a spirit, 
speak  to  that  spirit  as  though  you  were 
speaking  to  a friend,  and  you  will  get 
some  impression  in  response  to  your 


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question.  That  is  the  way  some  spir- 
its will  answer  you;  others  may  want 
you  to  write,  so  they  will  impress  you 
to  get  a pencil  and  paper,  and  will  con- 
trol your  hand  so  that  you  will  write 
whatever  they  impress  you  to  do.  Try 
sitting  that  way  several  times,  and  see 
if  it  is  not  what  they  want  you  to  do.  If 
it  is,  continue  to  follow  that  impression. 

Before  anyone  sits  in  a class,  he 
should  read  this  book  ‘‘Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death,”  through 
and  through,  and  understand  it  thor- 
oughly, so  that  he  will  understand  and 
know  just  how  spirits  can  and  do  man- 
ifest to  us  every  day,  and  why  each 
person  should  develop  and  use  his  spir- 
itual eyes  so  as  to  see  how  to  protect  the 
spiritual  body,  as  the  Creator  intended 
he  should  do.  Had  it  not  been  so  in- 


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205 


tended,  they  never  would  have  been 
given  to  him. 

God  never  makes  a mistake.  He 
knows  that  spirits  are  everywhere,  and 
He  also  knows  what  will  happen  to 
those  who  do  not  use  their  spiritual 
eyes.  Every  person  should  have  his 
spiritual  eyes  open,  so  as  to  be  able  to 
see  spirits,  the  same  as  he  has  his  mate- 
rial eyes  open  to  see  material  things. 

Developing  means  understanding;  if 
you  understand,  you  can  see  and  can 
develop.  Remember,  the  Truth  is  found 
in  proving  whether  things  be  right  or 


CHAPTER  XXX 


SPEAK  A WORD  OF  CHEER 

When  you  go  to  call  on  a friend,  you 
should  go  with  the  intention  of  cheer- 
ing him  up,  or  helping  him  in  any  and 
every  way  you  can,  but  instead  of  help- 
ing him  some  people  often  make  him 
feel  worse,  by  having  called  on  him. 

When  you  call  on  the  sick,  do  not  tell 
them  they  look  so  ill;  you  will  only 
make  them  feel  worse.  If  they  do  not 
know  they  are  sick,  do  not  tell  them 
they  look  so  ill,  for  you  may  do  them 
more  harm  than  good.  It  may  be  they 
have  been  sick  for  a long  time  and  have 
given  up  hope  of  getting  well;  your 


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207 


telling  them  that  they  are  looking  poor- 
ly, might  be  the  cause  of  their  abandon- 
ing hope,  and  passing  out. 

On  the  other  hand,  had  you  told  them 
that  they  were  going  to  get  well,  or 
had  you  given  them  a cheerful  word, 
they  might  have  been  encouraged  and 
made  a greater  effort  to  live,  and  lived 
on  for  a number  of  years  more ; just  by 
a word  of  cheer.  If  you  cannot  do  that, 
do  not  go  near  them,  as  you  will  only 
make  them  worse,  when  they  do  not  ask, 
or  have  not  asked,  you  to  tell  them  how 
they  feel,  or  how  they  look.  Should 
you  not  have  seen  them  for  months,  you 
would  be  in  no  position  to  tell  them 
anything  anyway. 

When  you  talk  to  them,  speak  of 
some  subject  that  will  please  them ; but 
do  not  continue  the  talk  until  the  sick 


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person  is  all  worn  out  or  getting  nerv- 
ous. Do  not  stay  too  long  at  a time,  but 
go  often  and  then  make  your  visit 
pleasant.  After  you  have  left  the  sick 
person,  he  will  think  for  days  to  come 
of  everything  you  have  said  to  him,  and 
it  may  run  through  his  mind  several 
times  a day.  The  more  he  thinks  about 
it,  the  deeper  the  impression  will  be, 
until  he  believes  every  word  of  it, 
whether  it  is  true  or  not. 

When  people  are  ill  and  in  a relaxed 
condition,  they  will  believe  what  is  told 
them  at  that  time,  though  they  would 
not  pay  any  attention  to  it  if  they  were 
v/ell;  in  fact  you  will  tell  them  things 
then  that  you  would  not  have  talked 
about  if  they  v/ere  well. 

Do  all  the  good  you  can  to  help  them, 
speak  a word  of  cheer,  and  if  they  pass 


SPEAK  A WORD  OF  CHEER 


209 


out  of  life,  you  will  be  glad  that  you 
called  on  them  when  they  were  in  need, 
and  did  all  you  could  do ; you  can  glad- 
den their  hearts,  and  they  will  die  hap- 
pier by  knowing  that  their  neighbors 
thought  something  of  them,  and  that 
all  was  done  that  could  be  done  to  help 
them  and  make  them  feel  happy  'as 
their  end  drew  near. 


CHAPTER  XXXI 


NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  DO  GOOD 

Now  is  the  time  to  give  to  the  sick 
and  needy.  Do  not  wait  until  they  have 
passed  into  the  spirit  world  to  go  and 
place  flowers  on  their  graves.  If  you 
have  any  smiles  or  roses  to  give  to 
friends,  give  them  while  they  are  liv- 
ing, so  they  will  appreciate  them,  and 
do  not  wait  until  they  are  dead  to  place 
them  on  the  cold,  cold  grave,  for  the 
roses  and  smiles  will  then  do  them  no 
good.  What  they  need  is  encourage- 
ment and  cheer,  while  here. 

Now  is  the  time  to  give,  for  today  is 
the  day  of  salvation.  When  persons  are 


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211 


hungry  and  starving,  feed  them  now, 
when  the  food  is  what  they  want.  It 
will  save  their  lives ; they  cannot  eat  it 
after  they  are  dead.  It  would  never 
do  them  any  good  then,  nor  make  them 
feel  any  happier  in  the  spirit  world.  If 
you  want  to  be  happy,  or  if  you  want  to 
give  and  help  to  carry  out  your  mission 
here  in  this  life,  give  now,  for  you  may 
never  have  another  opportunity  to  help 
others,  like  to  now. 

Your  waiting  until  you  think  you 
will  find  some  one  else  more  worthy  of 
help  will  be  no  excuse.  Remember,  the 
more  you  do  here  in  this  life  the  hap- 
pier you  will  be  in  spirit  life.  There  is 
no  excuse  for  shirking  your  duty,  and 
excuses  cannot  make  you  happy  in  spir- 
it life.  It  is  not  what  you  think,  or  be- 
lieve, that  will  make  you  happy  there, 


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but  it  is  what  good  you  do  while  living 
here;  so  give  some  of  your  love  and 
gsDod  deeds  here,  and  you  will  be  happy 
there.  Not  only  will  persons  be  hap- 
pier in  spirit  life,  but  when  they  do 
good  here  they  know  they  have  done  the 
light;  consequently  they  are  happier 
here.  No  matter  what  others  may  say 
or  do,  they  have  their  reward  for  doing 
good  unto  others. 

Every  person  we  meet  is  our  brother 
or  sister,  and  it  is  our  duty  to  do  good 
and  give  a helping  hand  to  all  who  are 
in  need,  to  help  them  over  the  rough 
and  painful  places  in  this  life.  There 
are  many  spirits  in  the  spirit  realm 
who  would  be  much  happier  than  they 
are  if  they  had  only  obeyed  their  good 
impulses  and  given  more  assistance  to 
others,  while  on  the  earth-plane.  Do 


DO  GOOD  NOW 


213 


not  wait  or  defer  your  good  deeds  to  a 
future  date,  for  if  you  do  not  make 
others  happy  or  help  to  lighten  their 
burdens  here,  you  will  not  find  happi- 
ness awaiting  you  in  the  spirit  realm. 
Do  all  the  good  you  can  to  your  fellow- 
man  here,  and  you  will  be  happier  in 
fulfilling  your  mission  in  this  life  and 
be  blessed  in  the  spirit  world. 


CHAPTER  XXXII 


WHY  “SOUL  SCIENCE,  THE  PROOF  OF 
LIFE  AFTER  DEATH”  ^HOULD  BE 
IN  EVERY  HOME 

Why  should  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof 
of  Life  after  Death,”  be  read  in  every 
home?  Because  it  teaches  how  to  open 
the  spirit  eyes,  to  see  spiritually  the 
different  spirits  that  are  around  mor- 
tals, so  that  those  who  live  according  to 
its  teachings  will  know,  in  advance, 
just  where  they  will  go,  whom  they  will 
meet,  and  what  they  will  do,  when  they 
pass  into  the  other  life.  Without  this 
knowledge,  when  they  pass  into  spirit 
life,  their  spirits  will  hover  for  some 
time  around  the  graves  that  hold  their 


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bodies,  unless  some  spirit  comes  and 
tells  them  they  are  in  the  spirit  world, 
or  shows  them  how  to  progress  in  the 
spirit  world. 

As  we  have  told  you  in  other  chap- 
ters, if  you  do  not  know  anything  here, 
you  will  not  know  anything  in  the  spir- 
it world.  Therefore,  if  you  are  ignor- 
ant while  living  here  in  your  body,  in 
regard  to  seeing  spirits,  and  in  regard 
to  the  spiritual  laws  of  the  spirit  world, 
you  will  have  to  learn  those  spiritual 
laws  there,  before  you  will  ever  be  able 
to  progress,  and  see  and  know  whom 
and  where  you  are,  in  order  to  be  able 
to  send  a message  or  manifest  your- 
self to  some  loved  one  who  is  still  liv- 
ing. 

If  persons  can  see  spiritually,  and 
would  go  to  the  graveyard,  they  would 


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be  able  to  see  spirits  wandering  about, 
waiting  for  an  angel  to  come  and  take 
them  to  Heaven,  as  they  were  taught 
they  would  be  when  they  should  die. 
Since  death,  they  have  not  been  able  to 
find  an  angel  waiting  to  show  them  the 
way,  and  oh,  how  sad  and  disappointed 
they  seem  to  be!  When  we  talk  to 
them,  they  do  not  seem  to  understand, 
and  yet  they  realize  something  is 
wrong,  and  are  amazed  at  the  condition 
in  which  they  find  themselves.  They 
see  other  spirits  going  about,  each  do- 
ing his  work.  Some  are  happy,  others 
sad,  according  to  the  life  they  lived 
while  in  their  bodies. 

After  your  loved  ones  have  passed 
into  the  spirit  world,  do  not  wear  crape, 
or  mourning,  or  weep  over  their  graves, 
for  that  only  holds  their  bodies;  nor 


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wish  they  were  living,  for  you  are  only 
hindering  their  progress  in  the  spirit 
world,  and  keeping  them  from  being 
happy  and  from  doing  their  work 
there.  We  assure  you  that  you  do  not 
want  to  go  and  help  anybody  that  is 
sad  and  crying  all  the  time ; you  do  not 
even  want  to  be  near  them,  because  it 
makes  you  feel  sad  just  as  they  do. 

Just  so  with  your  loved  ones  in  the 
spirit  world.  They  do  not  want  you  to 
mourn,  and  feel  sad  and  weep  for  them, 
because  they  have  passed  into  the  spirit 
world.  They  are  free  from  pain  and  are 
happier  than  you  are  here.  They  do 
not  care  to  be  near  or  around  you,  nor 
any  one  else  who  is  sad  or  crying,  for 
they  suffered  enough  while  living,  and 
now  want  to  rest  and  be  happy,  and 
want  you  to  think  good  thoughts,  lead 


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good  lives  and  be  happy,  so  that  their 
spirits  can  come  in  to  help  you,  and  try 
to  repay  you  for  the  good  you  did  in 
helping  them,  while  they  were  living 
and  suffering.  You  can,  and  do,  help 
your  loved  ones  here  and  in  the  spirit 
world,  for  they  think  and  feel  just  as 
you  do.  We  pray  you,  do  all  the  good 
you  can  while  living.  That  will  make 
every  one  happy  here  and  in  the  spirit 
v/orld. 

A knowledge  of  the  teaching  of  ‘‘Soul 
Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death,” 
will  have  a profound  influence  on  chil- 
dren. Parents  often  mark  their  chil- 
dren’s minds  by  thinking  and  talking 
along  certain  lines.  The  home  is  the 
place  where  they  raise  and  teach  their 
children,  who  will  remember,  as  long 
as  they  live,  just  how  they  were  raised 


SOUL  SCIENCE  IN  ALL  HOMES  219 


and  what  they  were  taught  to  believe, 
in  their  homes. 

When  the  little  one  is  playing  on  the 
floor,  if  the  parents  were  to  give  it 
something  sharp,  or  throw  something 
sharp  near  it  on  the  floor,  the  little  one 
would  be  likely  to  pick  it  up,  and  hurt 
itself.  They  could  not  blame  the  child, 
nor  should  they  punish  it  for  being 
hurt.  They  are  the  ones  that  should  be 
blamed  and  punished ; not  the  child.  It 
is  just  so  with  children.  They  are  in- 
fluenced by  your  life  and  conduct. 

Parents,  talk  to  your  children. 
Mothers,  talk  to  your  daughters.  Take 
them  into  your  confidence  and  tell  them 
the  secrets  of  life,  so  they  will  know 
how  to  take  care  of,  and  protect,  their 
bodies ; and  if  anything  appears  wrong 
to  them,  they  will  tell  you,  and  in  that 


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way  you  may  be  the  cause  of  saving 
them  much  suffering,  or  even  death.  If 
you  do  not  tell  them  at  home,  they  may 
learn  in  a perverted  fashion,  away 
from  home,  and  it  may  be  too  late  then 
to  save  them.  Just  so,  fathers,  tell  your 
sons  all  about  themselves.  Teach  them 
not  to  smoke,  chev/,  drink,  or  gamble. 
Tell  them  that  these  are  only  evil  hab- 
its, which  they  can  live  without;  that 
if  God  intended  that  boys  or  men  should 
smoke.  He  would  have  created  them 
with  a smoke-stack  on  their  heads.  Ask 
them  how  they  would  like  to  see  their 
father  with  an  old  pipe  in  his  mouth, 
or  tobacco- juice  running  down  his  chin. 
Tell  them  not  to  drink  any  kind  of  liq- 
uor, that  it  is  not  the  last  glass  that 
makes  a person  drunk,  as  you  will  hear 
it  said,  but  it  is  the  first  one ; for  if  they 


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never  take  the  first  glass  they  will 
never  get  drunk. 

When  a young  man  has  taken  his 
first  glass,  others  will  begin  to  treat 
him,  and  the  first  thing  he  knows,  he 
will  get  into  a fight — it  may  be  with 
his  best  friend — be  brought  home 
drunk,  and  thus  disgrace  his  parents 
and  may  be  the  cause  of  his  becoming 
a drunkard.  And  they  will  remember 
it  as  long  as  they  live. 

Parents  blame  their  children  for  be- 
ing mean.  We  do  not  blame  the  chil- 
dren so  much  as  we  do  the  parents,  for 
when  those  children  were  born,  they 
were  poor  little  innocent  babes,  could 
do  no  harm,  and  were  not  then  bad 
children.  You  raise  your  children  at 
home,  and  if  they  are  bad,  you  must 


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have  raised  them  that  way  yourselves, 
and  did  not  train  them  right. 

Speak  only  the  truth  to  your  chil- 
dren, and  they  will  respect  you  and 
your  word,  and  be  a credit  to  you.  You 
may  try  to  think  you  are  deceiving  your 
children,  but  they  are  watching  you, 
and  their  minds  are  very  active.  They 
will  see  you  doing  wrong,  and  although 
they  may  not  say  anything  to  you  about 
it,  they  will  be  sure  to  follow  your  ex- 
ample. They  are  all  the  time  watching 
and  waiting  for  the  time  to  come  when 
they  can  deceive  you.  Parents  should 
tell  their  children  the  truth  if  they  ex- 
pect the  children  to  tell  them  the  same, 
and  the  best  place  to  do  that  is  in  the 
home. 

Children  are  not  bad  if  not  made  so. 
Parents,  you  are  teaching  your  chil- 


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dren  every  day,  by  your  lives.  When 
you  do  teach,  or  tell  them,  the  truth,  you 
are  drawing  in,  and  around,  yourselves 
and  children,  that  class  of  spirits  and 
conditions  that  will  impress  or  cause 
the  children  to  do  right.  When  you  do 
wrong,  you  are  teaching  your  children, 
and  are  drawing  in  and  around  them 
and  yourself,  such  conditions  as  will 
encourage  them  to  do  wrong,  the  same 
as  you  are  doing,  and  when  your  chil- 
dren do  wrong,  as  a general  thing,  you 
will  blame  some  one  else  for  teaching 
them  to  do  wrong,  when  really  the 
cause  is  in  their  own  homes. 

Parents,  teach  your  children  that 
whenever  they  do  wrong,  though  they 
may  not  tell  any  one,  or  may  try  to 
hide  it  or  keep  it  from  you,  they  will 
suffer  for  it,  whether  they  tell  you  or 


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not,  and  they  will  not  have  to  wait  un- 
til it  is  found  out,  or  wait  until  they 
are  dead  and  then  commence  to  suffer, 
but  that  when  they  tell  the  truth  and 
do  right,  they  are  going  to  feel  happy, 
and  other  children  will  see  that  they 
are  happy,  and  will  want  to  know  the 
cause, — and  of  course,  they  will  tell 
them  all  about  it.  They  cannot  keep  it 
to  themselves.  They  will  “give  it 
away”.  Just  so,  when  they  think  they 
can  do  wrong,  without  its  being  known 
or  found  out,  they  will  appear  guilty, 
and  will  talk  the  way  they  feel, — ^will 
tell  on  themselves.  They  cannot  help 
it,  or  keep  it  to  themselves. 

“Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after 
Death”  teaches  how  to  get,  and  have, 
more  confidence  in  self,  and  in  home, 
and  how  to  make  this  home  a paradise. 


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It  will  show  every  one  the  way  to  have 
confidence,  and  drive  out  all  fear,  hat- 
red and  jealousy,  and  how  to  help  im- 
plant love  in  the  hearts  of  all  humanity. 
It  will  rob  the  grave  of  victory,  and 
death  of  its  sting.  All  who  read  it,  and 
observe  its  precepts,  need  not  fear  the 
grave  or  death, — a fear  which  has 
caused  so  much  mental  suffering 
throughout  all  the  ages  past.  The 
grave  is  only  a place  in  which  to  bury 
the  material  body.  Why  should  they 
fear  it?  Death  only  means  that  their 
life  work  is  finished! 

After  any  one  has  worked  hard  and 
faithfully  for  a day  of  ten  hours,  he  is 
glad  his  day’s  work  is  done,  so  that  he 
can  go  home  and  rest.  He  is  not  afraid 
to  go  home,  for  he  knows  where  he  is 
going,  and  what  he  will  do,  and  whom 


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he  will  see,  when  he  gets  there.  The 
home  belongs  to  him  and  his.  They 
have  made  it  just  what  it  is.  They  do 
not  fear  or  dread  to  go  to  their  home. 

Why,  we  repeat,  should  people  fear 
death,  when  it  only  means  that  they  are 
going  to  their  home  in  the  spirit  world, 
to  rest  and  enjoy  that  which  they  have 
worked  for?  They  have  worked  long, 
and  are  tired ; why  should  they  fear  go- 
ing to  their  home,  which  they  built  for 
themselves  according  to  the  plans,  and 
with  the  material,  they  have  provided 
for  it.  There  is  something  wrong;  it 
is  useless  to  ask  what  it  is.  They  say 
they  are  good  people.  Then  why  will 
they  fear  death? 


CHAPTER  XXXIII 


THE  TRUTH 

The  Truth  is  the  most  simple  thing 
in  the  world  to  speak.  Any  one  who 
can  speak  can  tell  the  Truth,  for  it  is 
natural,  even  with  a little  child.  If  you 
will  respect  the  Truth  you  can  respect 
your  neighbor,  your  neighbor  will  re- 
spect you,  he  will  look  up  to  you,  and 
you  will  respect  yourself ; it  may  be  the 
cause  of  your  making  something  out  of 
yourself,  building  up  a good  business, 
and  of  your  becoming  loved  and  re- 
spected by  every  one. 

Living  the  Truth  is  the  only  kind  of 
life  that  will  make  you  happy  here  and 


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hereafter.  The  Truth  is  respected  by 
rich  and  poor,  low  and  high,  king  and 
ruler — all  alike.  The  Truth  makes  peo- 
ple free  to  think,  act  and  do.  The  Truth 
will  rob  jealousy  of  its  fruit.  Woe  to 
him  who  cannot  stand  up  and  face  the 
Truth.  Some  people  are  doing  all  they 
can  today  to  keep  out  of  the  way  of 
Truth.  The  Truth  will  lead  the  on- 
ward march  through  life. 

One  does  not  have  to  stop  and  think 
to  tell  the  Truth,  for  it  is  perfectly  nat- 
ural to  tell  it.  Yet  there  are  those  who 
are  going  to  great  expense  and  doing 
aU  they  can  to  keep  the  Truth  from  the 
people,  and  keep  them  in  ignorance ; for 
by  so  doing  they  can  make  them  their 
slaves  and  keep  them  from  progressing. 

Truth  and  Freedom  go  hand  in  hand, 
even  as  slavery  and  suffering  are  the 


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229 


fruits  of  ignorance.  If  every  person 
only  knew  the  Truth  and  what  it  meant 
to  him,  this  would  be  a happier  and 
better  world. 


CHAPTER  XXXIV 


DESTINY  AND  HEREDITY 

Man  has  been  taught  to  believe  in 
Destiny  and  Heredity,  which  teaching 
has  caused  some  to  pass  out  of  life  long 
before  they  would  pass  had  they  not 
been  taught  that  way.  It  has  caused 
men  to  go  through  much  unnecessary 
suffering  because  they  had  been  taught 
to  believe  that  God  had  destined  every 
person  to  a certain  death  by  disease  or 
accident. 

Those  who  teach  such  beliefs  have 
taken  away  the  power  God  has  given  to 
man,  and  have  thus  helped  to  destroy 
the  use  of  his  body  and  limbs  and  to 


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231 


make  him  as  helpless  as  a babe.  He  is 
taught  that  he  cannot  avoid  accidents, 
that  his  days  are  numbered,  and  that 
the  time  is  appointed  when  he  is  to  die 
by  a certain  accident  or  disease.  Thus 
he  does  not  try  to  avoid  accidents  nor 
take  better  care  of  his  health.  When 
he  gets  into  a place  where  he  sees  there 
is  danger,  he  thinks  he  knows  what  his 
fate  is,  and  instead  of  trying  to  avoid 
this  accident,  he  will  stand  there  and  be 
killed;  whereas,  if  he  had  not  been 
taught  that  way,  he  could  and  would 
have  avoided  the  danger  and  not  been 
killed. 

Because  a man  knows  that  there  have 
been  certain  members  of  his  family  for 
the  last  ten  generations  who  have 
abused  or  misused  their  bodies,  con- 
tracted colds  which  have  settled  on 


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their  lungs,  and  caused  them  to  pass 
out  of  life  with  tuberculosis  or  other 
trouble,  he  thinks  that  he  must  inherit 
the  same  disease;  and,  just  as  soon  as 
he  contracts  a cold  by  not  taking  proper 
care  of  himself,  he  commences  to 
cough,  as  he  believes  he  has  inherited 
consumption,  and  must  die  that  death. 
He  thinks  that  all  the  treatments  and 
medicines  in  the  world  will  not  cure 
him  of  his  malady.  Of  course,  he  gives 
up  all  hope,  and  dies  the  way  he  pre- 
dicted he  would.  By  his  thinking  such 
thoughts,  he  is  attracting  the  spirits  of 
people  who  passed  into  the  spirit  world 
with  the  same  disease,  and  those  spirits 
are  around  him,  and  make  him  feel  just 
as  they  did  before  they  passed  out  of 
life. 

Those  who  believe  in  destiny  and 


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heredity,  and  advocate  that  belief,  are 
the  cause  of  sending  many  people  into 
the  spirit  world  before  they  should.  Be- 
lieving that  way,  and  not  trying  to  live 
rightly,  cause  much  suffering  in  the 
world  to-day. 

The  cause  of  many  diseases  and 
much  suffering,  as  is  explained  more 
fully  in  the  chapter  under  the  head  of 
“Diseases  and  Treatments”,  is  that 
people  do  not  take  care  of  themselves 
as  they  should;  for  example,  they  may 
either  eat  too  much,  or  not  the  proper 
food.  Heredity  has  nothing  to  do  with 
what  you  eat,  how  you  dress,  or  take 
care  of  your  health ; there  is  something 
within  all  people  that  tells  them  when 
their  hunger  is  satisfied.  If  they  obey 
this  inward  monitor  and  eat  just 
enough  to  be  satisfied,  they  will  never 


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eat  too  much,  will  not  be  ill  from  over- 
taxing their  digestion,  and  will  live 
longer. 

Heredity  has  nothing  to  do  with  a 
person’s  over-eating,  and  thus  causing 
him  to  have  a stroke  of  apoplexy,  and 
dying  from  it.  If,  after  eating  certain 
food,  you  find  that  it  does  not  agree 
with  you,  do  not  eat  it  again ; or,  if  you 
like  certain  food,  do  not  over-eat  of  it; 
do  not  make  yourself  sick  with  it  and 
then  blame  your  parents  or  some  one 
else,  or  destiny  or  heredity,  for  it,  or 
the  spirit  forces  for  allowing  such  con- 
ditions around  you.  Use  your  reason 
and  common  sense  at  all  times.  Use 
your  spirit  eyes  to  see  what  is  around 
you,  spiritually;  drive  away  what  you 
do  not  want,  and  welcome  the  good.  You 


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make  your  own  Destiny  and  Heredity 
yourself,  by  your  way  of  living  and 
thinking  here. 


CHAPTER  XXXV 


STOP  PUBLISHING  ABOUT  CRIMES  AND 
MURDERS 

If  all  the  evil  deeds  and  crimes  that 
are  committed  were  not  published, 
there  would  not  be  nearly  so  much 
crime  of  all  kinds  going  on  in  the  world 
as  there  is  today.  Every  time  we  read 
about  a crime  we  are  thinking  about  it, 
and  as  we  think,  we  attract  that  class 
of  spirits  to  us.  Not  only  do  we  at- 
tract them  to  us,  but  as  we  read,  sug- 
gestions come  to  us  which  are  very 
harmful,  and  may  cause  us  to  do  evil. 

There  are  all  kinds  of  people  think- 
ing all  kinds  of  thoughts,  and  when  a 
person  who  has  been  thinking  of  mur- 


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dering  some  one,  reads  just  how,  when 
and  where,  a certain  crime  was  com- 
mitted, given  in  full  detail,  and  pub- 
lished in  the  paper,  it  suggests  some- 
thing to  that  person,  and,  through  that 
suggestion  it  may  cause  him  to  commit 
a crime  that  he  never  would  have 
thought  of  had  he  not  read  it  in  the 
paper.  Just  as  long  as  the  details  of 
these  awful  crimes  are  allowed  to  be 
published,  just  so  long  will  people  read 
them,  and  the  greater  will  be  the  num- 
ber of  crimes  suggested  and  committed. 

Whatever  you  are  reading  about,  you 
are  attracting  that  class  of  spirits  to 
you,  and  the  more  that  class  of  spirits 
is  around  you,  the  more  they  are  im- 
pressing you  to  do  what  they  did,  or 
wanted  to  do  while  they  were  living  in 
their  bodies.  How  many  times  do  boys 


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run  away  from  home  after  reading 
some  cheap  novel,  or  attending  cheap 
moving  pictures  that  show  the  killing 
of  Indians,  etc.  They  were  good  boys, 
had  good  parents,  and  were  raised  all 
right.  Or  maybe  some  neighbors’  boys 
were  telling  them  what  they  had  read, 
heard  or  seen,  and  that  was  enough. 
Such  exciting  stories  or  pictures  are 
very  apt  to  impress  boys  to  steal  money, 
buy  a revolver,  and  run  away  in  search 
of  just  the  excitement  they  read  of, 
heard,  or  saw  on  the  screen.  Probably 
you  could  not  have  hired  those  boys  to 
steal,  or  run  away,  before  they  read 
about  the  Indians. 

People  have  committed  all  sorts  of 
crimes  after  reading  about  them.  When 
you  read  something  funny,  it  causes 
you  to  laugh,  and  you  would  not  have 


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laughed  at  that  time  if  you  had  not  been 
reading  about  it.  If  one  thing  you  read 
in  the  newspaper  will  cause  you  to 
laugh,  another  thing  will  cause  you  to 
cry,  and  thus  act  according  to  what  you 
read.  As  you  read,  so  will  you  think, 
and  as  you  think,  so  are  you. 

Your  life  here  and  in  the  hereafter 
depends  upon  what  you  read,  your 
thoughts,  acts  and  deeds.  Therefore, 
as  newspapers  and  books  are  the 
thoughts  of  men  made  manifest,  and  as 
those  thoughts  have  power  to  mold  the 
minds  of  those  who  read  them,  they 
may  be  the  means  of  causing  the  eleva- 
tion and  purifying,  or  the  degradation 
and  downfall,  of  the  readers.  Books  or 
papers  detailing  murder  and  crime 
should  be  prohibited  and  not  allowed 
publication. 


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Thought  is  all-powerful,  and  in  time 
of  war  we  have  a very  good  illustration 
of  its  power.  For  many  a century,  cer- 
tain peoples  have  had  it  impressed  upon 
their  minds,  by  those  in  authority,  and 
by  some  writers  and  authors,  that 
Might  makes  Right,  and  as  their  rulers 
had  allowed  greed  and  the  desire  for 
conquest  to  take  possession  of  them, 
thus  drawing  around  them  spirits  of 
those  who  had  oppressed  and  made  war 
upon  fellow-beings  in  past  ages,  they 
had  become  obsessed  by  those  evil  spir- 
its, and  impressed  by  them  to  do  the 
atrocious  deeds  of  which  they  have  been 
guilty — deeds  that  have  never  been 
equalled  for  cruelty. 

In  recent  years  war  has  become  an 
institution  of  barbaric  cruelty,  some 
modern  wars  never  having  been 


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equalled  in  ferocity  by  any  of  the  un- 
civilized nations  of  the  past.  In  these 
wars,  crimes  have  been  committed  such 
as  were  unknown  in  the  dark  ages, 
crimes  against  humanity ; the  ethics  of 
war  and  of  honorable  warfare  and  civ- 
ilization have  been  outraged  by  those 
who  have  proved  themselves  worse  than 
barbarians. 

Such  have  been  the  results  of  so- 
called  “modern”  warfare.  Some  of 
those  people  have  become  so  evil  in 
their  thoughts  that  even  their  religion 
has  been  distorted  into  a self-worship, 
and  a worship  of  a god  of  their  own 
evil  imaginations,  a god  of  war,  de- 
lighting in  the  slaughter  of  innocent 
women  and  children;  they  call  upon 
this  god  to  help  them  to  do  these  deeds 
of  evil.  Thus,  they  call  around  them 


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the  powers  of  evil,  who  are  then  taking 
the  place  of  the  true  God,  and  leading 
them  and  their  poor,  benighted  people, 
to  the  verge  of  destruction.  Those  are 
the  fruits  of  so-called  modern  warfare, 
that  has  been  waged  upon  humanity. 

As  surely  as  a man  thinketh  in  his 
heart,  so  is  he;  and  his  thoughts  will 
bear  fruit,  either  for  good  or  evil.  If 
more  books  were  written  telling  us  how 
to  live  aright  and  serve  the  true  God, 
the  Spirit  of  Life,  whose  dwelling-place 
is  within  our  hearts,  teaching  us  that 
the  God  of  Life  is  not  a cruel  God,  who 
delights  in  war  and  murder,  but  that 
He  is  a God  of  Love,  who  desires  all 
His  creatures  to  live  in  love  and  har- 
mony with  one  another  as  brethren; 
then  love  would  be  the  ruling  power  and 
we  would  have  neither  prisons  nor  elec- 


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trie  chairs.  Then  would  men  progress 
toward  true  civilization,  and  each  man 
would  know  where  Heaven  is,  and  what 
his  life  will  be  after  so-called  “Death.” 


CHAPTER  XXXVI 


LIARS  AND  SLANDERERS 

It  takes  a smart  man  to  be  a good 
liar ; he  has  to  keep  thinking,  and  keep 
his  mind  on  the  alert  at  all  times,  in 
order  that  people  may  not  catch  him  in 
his  lies,  and  he  will  stay  awake  many 
an  hour,  and  put  in  many  sleepless 
nights,  trying  to  think  and  formulate 
another  lie  to  offset  the  last  lie  he  told 
the  same  person.  He  will  not  only  lie 
to  one  person,  but  he  will  lie  to  every 
one,  and  he  will  lie  when  the  truth 
would  answer  the  best  purpose. 

Those  people  are  in  all  walks  of  life. 
Lying  becomes  a disease,  and  often 


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245 


causes  the  person  to  become  obsessed. 
Why  will  people  talk  to  try  to  hurt  one 
another,  when  there  is  no  one  that  is 
perfect?  Every  person  has  his  faults; 
some  may  have  greater  faults  than  oth- 
ers, some  may  not  show  their  faults,  yet 
they  may  have  greater  faults  than 
those  they  are  talking  about. 

As  a general  thing,  people  talk  about 
others  on  account  of  envy  or  jealousy; 
and  yet  if  all  who  talk  about  others, 
either  through  jealousy  or  otherwise, 
only  knew  that  when  they  are  talking 
about  others,  they  are  talking  about, 
and  hurting,  themselves,  they  would 
cease  to  do  so.  Just  go  home,  and  look 
over  your  past  life,  and  see  what  you 
are  doing;  just  think  for  one  minute,  if 
you  please,  that  there  are  other  people 
in  this  world.  Say  to  yourself,  “Well, 


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who  and  what  am  I,  and  am  I doing 
unto  others  as  I would  have  them  do 
unto  me?” 

Never  mind  your  neighbors’  busi- 
ness, but  pay  strict  attention  to  your 
own.  Think  of  your  past  life.  You 
know  it  better  than  any  one  else  does. 
See  if  you  have  not,  yourself,  done 
more  and  worse  things  than  you  know 
or  have  heard  about  the  person  of  whom 
you  are  talking.  Yet  you  will  never 
talk  about  the  mean  things  you  have 
done,  or  were  thinking  of  doing.  Never 
mind  your  neighbor;  you  are  the  one 
you  want  to  watch  and  to  care  for.  You 
cannot  live  or  die  for  others;  you  can 
only  live  and  die  for  yourself. 

You  should  do  only  the  very  best 
deeds  to  all,  and  think  the  very  best 
thoughts  of  all.  For  the  thoughts  that 


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247 


you  are  sending  to  a brother,  good  or 
evil,  will  certainly  return  to  the  sender. 
You  do  not  understand  that  we  are  all 
brothers  and  sisters,  and  that  whatever 
you  say  and  do  unto  others,  you  say 
and  do  unto  yourself;  not  only  that, 
but  whatever  you  are  saying  about  oth- 
ers, you  are  attracting  the  same 
thing  to  yourself,  and  are  bringing 
yourself  on  the  same  level  with  those 
about  whom  you  are  talking. 

Usually  people  talk  about  those  who 
are  better  and  higher  in  life  than  they 
are  themselves,  for  they  are  not  afraid 
of  those  beneath  them ; they  know  that 
they  cannot  hurt  them  by  talking  about 
them.  Instead  of  talking  about,  and 
trying  to  disgrace,  or  degrade,  one  an- 
other, when  all  are  low  enough  at  the 
best,  without  making  them  any  lower 


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or  worse  than  they  are,  if  they  would 
first  sweep  their  own  dooryard,  and  at- 
tend to  their  own  business  before  they 
attempt  to  take  care  of  their  neighbors’ 
business,  they  would  have  all  they  could 
do,  and  would  be  better  off ; and  we  as- 
sure you  that  their  neighbors  also 
would  be.  If  they  would  do  that  way, 
and  speak  a kind  word,  instead  of  a 
cross  one,  to  every  person,  what  a bless- 
ing they  would  bestow  upon  themselves 
and  their  community ! How  they  would 
be  loved  by  every  one ! 

You  do  not  like  people  to  talk  about 
you  all  the  time,  neither  do  they  like 
you  to  talk  about  them  all  the  time. 
The  people  that  talk  about  you  are  will- 
ing to  go  half  way  if  you  are  willing 
to  go  the  other  half;  that  is,  you  stop 
talking  about  them,  and  see  if  you  will 


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249 


not  notice  a great  change  in  yourself 
and  in  your  neighbors. 

No  one  can  love  you  if  you  have  no 
love  within  you,  for  if  you  had,  you 
would  not,  or  could  not,  talk  about 
people  the  way  you  do.  If  you  will 
keep  on  talking  about  every  one,  after 
a while  you  will  begin  to  talk  about  and 
hate  yourself,  and  will  spend  the  lat- 
ter part  of  your  days  in  the  mad-house. 
If  you  do  not  believe  this,  just  keep  on 
the  way  you  are  going;  you  have  a good 
start,  for  you  are  on  the  right  road  to 
that  place.  If  you  were  not,  you  could 
not  and  would  not  talk  the  way  you  are 
doing  now. 

People  do  not  like  to  have  anything 
to  do  with  a person  who  is  always  talk- 
ing about  his  relatives  or  neighbors, 
because  they  are  afraid  he  will  start  to 


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talk  about  them  next.  A person  that 
is  talking  about  this  one  or  that  one, 
never  seeing  the  good  in  any  one,  is  a 
slanderer;  he  is  a person  that  must  be 
watched ; he  cannot  be  trusted. 

Slanderers  are  like  robbers,  who  rob 
people  of  their  character  and  reputa- 
tion, by  talking,  and  lowering  those 
whom  they  talk  about ; people  who  have 
worked  hard  all  their  lives,  to  build 
themselves  up  honorably.  Men  are 
murderers  who  murder  their  victims 
by  degrees,  by  taking  away  their  char- 
acter, the  most  precious  thing  they 
nave ; they  cause  people  to  become  mur- 
derers. When  a person  will  take  his 
own  life,  after  he  has  been  talked  about 
and  slandered,  he  commits  murder. 

We  could  honor  a thief  in  preference 
to  a liar  and  a slanderer,  because  we 


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251 


can  lock  our  doors  and  hide  from  a 
thief,  but  we  cannot  lock  ourselves  up 
or  hide  from  a lying  or  a slanderous 
tongue.  People  who  do  those  things 
have  not  developed  their  spirituality. 
If  they  had,  they  would,  or  could,  not 
talk  about  one  another.  The  best  rem- 
edy for  lying  and  slandering  is  to  open 
the  spiritual  eyes,  so  that  one  may  be 
able  to  drive  away  lying  spirits,  and 
speak  the  truth  at  all  times,  and  pray 
for  the  “Good  Spirits”  to  give  light  to 
the  liars  and  slanderers,  and  to  show 
them  the  way  to  the  Truth. 

Remember,  that  according  to  God’s 
laws,  if  a person  has  talked  about  an- 
other, and  has  injured  him,  or  tried  to 
do  so  in  any  way,  while  living,  and  if 
he  has  not  already  asked  that  person 
to  forgive  him  for  all  wrongs  and  mean 


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things  he  has  said  about  him,  he  will 
have  to  do  so  as  soon  as  he  passes  into 
the  spirit  world,  before  he  will  ever  be 
able  to  progress  there. 

How  much  easier  it  is  for  a person 
while  living  to  go  direct  to  the  home  of 
those  whom  he  has  tried  to  injure,  or 
who  have  tried  to  injure  him,  by  back- 
biting and  slandering,  and  ask  their 
forgiveness,  than  to  wait  until  he  or 
they  have  passed  into  spirit  life.  You 
must  forgive  and  be  forgiven,  either 
while  living  here,  or  after  passing  into 
the  spirit  world,  before  you  can  pro- 
gress and  be  happy  either  here  or  there. 


CHAPTER  XXXVII 


OBSESSION 

Any  person  is  liable  to  be  obsessed  at 
any  time.  The  best  way  to  avoid  it  is 
to  lead  a clean,  pure  life  and  make  up 
your  mind  that  you  will  not  allow  any 
one  to  lead  you  in  the  wrong  direction. 
Know  yourself,  and  pray  to  the  Good 
Spirit  forces  to  lead  you  aright.  If  all 
would,  or  could,  see  spiritually  what  is 
around  them,  and  drive  the  evil  away, 
there  would  not  be  so  much  obsession 
as  there  is  today. 

What  would  you  think  of  a young 
lady  who  would  go  to  a strange  city 
and  accept  the  invitation  of  the  first 


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man  she  met  to  go  with  him  to  view  the 
city?  She  would  go  without  knowing 
the  first  thing  about  him,  although  hav- 
ing friends  in  that  city  who  would  have 
been  glad  to  go  with  her,  had  she  called 
on  them.  You  certainly  would  not  have 
a very  high  opinion  of  her.  What  opin- 
ion can  we  have  of  you,  when  you  are 
being  led  all  over  the  city  and  every 
other  place  by  some  one  you  do  not  or 
cannot  see  with  your  material  eyes; 
they  are  spirits  that  you  cannot  or  do 
not  see;  they  are  strangers  to  you  and 
may  or  may  not  lead  you  aright. 

You  have  friends  in  the  spirit  world 
(which  world  is  right  around  you)  who 
would  be  glad  to  come  at  your  call,  and 
help  and  lead  you  aright,  if  you  were 
to  call  on  them.  You  should  use  your 
spirit  eyes,  inasmuch  as  the  great  Cre- 


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255 


ator  has  given  them  to  you  for  use,  to 
see  how  to  guide  and  protect  your  spir- 
itual body  against  evil  spirits,  so  there 
would  be  no  danger  of  your  becoming 
obsessed. 


CHAPTER  XXXVIII 


DISEASES  AND  TREATMENTS 

As  there  are  different  diseases  in  the 
world  today,  so  there  are  different 
methods  of  treating  them.  No  doubt 
these  different  treatments  are  all  do- 
ing good,  some  more  than  others. 

There  is  one  certain  kind  of  treat- 
ment, which  is  a natural  and  universal 
treatment,  which  is  as  old  as  the  human 
race,  and  will  continue  to  be  practised 
as  long  as  time  lasts.  Everybody  prac- 
tises it,  even  the  animals,  and  if  man 
were  to  practise  it  more,  or  as  much  as 
the  animals,  he  would  not  be  complain- 
ing so  much  and  would  have  better 


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health  and  live  longer  than  he  does. 

Anyone  can  practise  it,  even  a little 
child,  for  it  does  not  require  the  knowl- 
edge of  a professor  to  use  it.  In  fact, 
it  is  being  practised  today  all  over  the 
world,  among  all  classes  of  people,  and 
it  has  the  largest  number  of  patients, 
more  than  all  the  other  methods  of 
treatment,  combined. 

To  those  who  believe  in  other  treat- 
ments, when  emergency  arises,  this,  we 
would  say,  is  so  easy  to  give  and  apply 
to  one’s  self,  at  any  time  of  the  day  or 
night,  that  one  does  not  have  to  go  to 
the  hospital  to  take  the  treatment,  but 
it  can  be  given  in  any  place.  It  has 
been  applied  to,  and  it  has  cured.  Loco- 
motor Ataxia,  Paralysis,  acute  or 
chronic  Rheumatism,  Sciatica,  Lum- 
bago, Nervousness,  Obesity  and  many 


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other  troubles,  after  all  other  treat- 
ments and  known  remedies  have  failed. 
It  does  not  make  any  difference  who 
the  persons  are;  they  can  apply  this 
natural  treatment,  first  and  last. 

When  a little  child  falls  down,  any 
one  would  think  from  the  noise  it  made, 
and  from  the  sound  of  the  bump,  that 
the  little  one  had  cracked  its  head. 
What  is  the  first  thing  its  mother  will 
do?  Will  she  run  for  a doctor  or  a 
bottle  of  medicine?  Neither.  She  will 
run  and  pick  up  the  child,  rub  its  head, 
or  wherever  it  is  hurt,  and  in  a minute 
or  two,  the  child  is  playing  again! 
When  you  bump  your  forehead  until  it 
seems  as  though  you  saw  a million 
stars,  the  first  thing  you  do  is  to  rub 
the  place  with  your  hand,  which  re- 
stores the  circulation,  and  thus  eases 


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the  pain  quicker  than  any  amount  of 
medicine  could.  When  you  whip  a cat 
or  dog,  just  as  soon  as  the  animal  gets 
away  from  you,  it  will  lick  the  place  or 
rub  it  with  its  pav/. 

The  first  instinct  with  all,  whenever 
they  injure  themselves,  is  to  put  a hand 
to  the  place  injured,  and  rub  it  at  once. 
In  other  words,  the  first  impression  one 
receives,  on  being  hurt,  is  to  rub  or 
manipulate  the  injured  place,  and  if 
that  impression  is  followed,  they  are 
relieved  of  their  pain.  The  blow  causes 
the  blood  to  stop  circulating,  which  con- 
tracts the  muscles  and  wherever  there 
is  contraction,  when  that  part  of  the 
body  is  moved,  it  causes  pain.  By  rub- 
bing and  massaging  the  part  where  the 
contraction  is,  thus  causing  the  blood  to 


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circulate  and  the  muscles  to  relax,  the 
pain  ceases. 

The  general  cause  of  all  pain  is  con- 
traction of  the  muscles,  and  nothing 
will  remove  contraction  sooner  than 
manipulation.  Because  this  form  of 
treatment  is  ancient,  it  is  none  the  less 
valuable  as  a remedial  measure.  Even 
when  used  with  little  skill,  it  fre- 
quently does  much  good,  and  that  it  sel- 
dom works  harm  is  evident  from  the 
vast  numbers  who  apply  this  art  indis- 
criminately ! 

People  do  not  need  to  have  faith  in 
order  to  have  their  bodies  massaged,  to 
break  up  contraction  of  the  muscles  in 
order  that  the  blood  may  circulate ; be- 
cause the  blood  is  circulating  both  day 
and  night.  Faith  has  nothing  to  do 
with  it.  If  your  body  is  properly  mas- 


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saged  your  blood  will  circulate,  and  by 
keeping  up  proper  circulation,  the  im- 
purities of  the  blood  are  carried  olf 
through  the  liver  and  natural  channels 
of  the  body.  The  blood  keeps  the  body 
warm,  and  when  there  is  proper  circu- 
lation, the  heart  can  beat  regularly. 
Anyone  can  rub  the  body,  which  will 
cause  circulation,  and  thus  break  up 
the  contraction  of  the  muscles.  If  they 
understand  massaging  scientifically, 
much  more  benefit  will  be  derived. 

While  the  art  of  Massage  is  best 
learned  by  personal  instruction,  yet 
with  some  knowledge  of  anatomy  and 
physiology,  good  sense,  and  a general 
understanding  of  the  effects  aimed  at, 
anyone  can  accomplish  much  good  by 
this  means  of  treatment.  If  everyone 
who  gives  massage  treatments  would 


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live  clean,  pure  lives,  their  treatments 
would  have  a better  effect  on  their  pa- 
tients and  that  would  help  their  busi- 
ness. 

The  Creator  has  given  us  our  hands 
to  use,  to  keep  our  bodies  well,  so  that 
t/ie  spirit  can  carry  out  its  mission 
while  on  Earth.  All  should  use  their 
hands  to  relieve  the  body  of  pain. 
Schools  should  teach  how  to  apply  this 
natural  treatment,  scientifically,  so  as 
to  get  better  results,  and  thus  remove 
the  cause  and  effect  of  many  diseases. 
In  every  form  of  massage,  one  must  not 
be  so  strenuous  as  to  do  harm.  The 
patient  will  usually  inform  the  oper- 
ator if  he  is  being  made  uncomfortable 
by  the  treatment,  and  the  feelings  of 
tne  patient  are  a reliable  guide. 

Preliminary  to  giving  massage,  the 


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patient  should  be  placed  in  a comfort- 
able, relaxed  position.  As  the  giving 
of  massage,  especially  general  massage, 
requires  not  a little  strength  on  the 
part  of  the  operator,  one  who  is  not 
possessed  of  considerable  muscular 
force  and  endurance  should  not  at- 
tempt to  specialize  in  this  art,  for  signs 
of  fatigue  on  the  part  of  the  operator 
will  have  a depressing  effect  upon  the 
patient. 

There  are  millions  of  pores  in  the 
human  skin  which  act  as  suction-valves 
and  draw  into  the  body  many  kinds  of 
diseases.  We  may  carry  the  germs 
around  with  us,  which  we  have  ab- 
sorbed through  the  pores  of  our  skin, 
for  years;  after  awhile,  through  im- 
proper circulation  of  the  blood  and  by 
reason  of  our  system  being  in  a passive 


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condition,  we  become  ill  with  a certain 
disease,  which  we  may  have  carried 
around  with  us  for  years.  Then  we 
wonder  where  we  have  been  to  contract 
such  a disease,  as  there  is  no  one 
around  us  who  has  had  it,  and  we  may 
be  the  first  one  in  years  to  have  it  in 
the  neighborhood.  That  is  how  many 
diseases  are  carried  around  and  spread 
broadcast  over  parts  of  the  country 
where  they  were  never  known  before. 

There  are  many  causes  of  disease. 
People  continually  complain  of  being 
ill,  when  they  bring  much  of  their  sick- 
ness upon  themselves,  by  improper  food 
and  poor  circulation  of  the  blood, 
which,  in  turn,  affects  the  heart  and 
every  other  part  of  the  body.  Sunstroke 
cannot  be  called  a disease,  but  it  is 
caused  by  excessive  heat  affecting  the 


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circulation.  If  persons  have  improper 
circulation,  they  will  have  trouble  with 
their  liver,  bowels  and  stomach,  also 
constipation,  fever  and  resultant  head- 
aches. If  people  will  think  good 
thoughts,  eat  what  agrees  with  them, 
have  proper  circulation  and  live  ac- 
cording to  the  teachings  of  “Soul  Sci- 
ence, the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death,” 
they  will  live  long  and  enjoy  the  best  of 
health. 


CHAPTER  XXXIX 


HOW  TO  CONDUCT  SERVICES 

Open  the  meeting  by  singing  one  or 
more  appropriate  hymns  or  songs  in 
harmony  with  our  teachings,  then  read 
a prose  selection  or  a poem  suitable  for 
the  occasion.  All  should  then  join  in 
reading  our  Creed,  after  which  an  in- 
vocation along  our  line  of  teaching 
should  be  given,  something  similar  to 
this: 

“Thou  great  Source  of  all  Life,  we 
have  gathered  here  this  day  in  Thy 
Name,  praying  that  something  may  be 
said  or  done  that  will  make  us  happier 
and  better  people  by  coming  here,  and 


HOW  TO  CONDUCT  SERVICES  267 


that  we  will  have  a better  understand- 
ing and  realization  of  what  life  is.  Help 
us  to  realize  that  we  and  Thee  are  one, 
and  that  we  are  all  brothers  and  sisters, 
and  whatever  we  do  unto  one  another 
we  do  only  unto  ourselves  and  Thee. 
Help  us  to  understand  and  realize  that 
we  are  all  Gods,  that  the  Kingdom  of 
God  is  within  us,  that  all  of  us  are 
standing  before  the  great  Judgment 
Bar  every  moment  of  our  lives;  that 
whether  we  do  right  or  wrong  the  God 
that  is  within  us  is  judging  us  accord- 
ing to  our  thoughts  and  deeds,  and  that 
our  punishment  or  reward  commences 
right  here  on  earth,  according  to  what 
we  do  while  we  are  living  in  the  flesh. 
Help  us  to  realize  this,  we  pray  Thee — 
that  we  are  all  building  our  home  in 
Heaven  every  day  of  our  lives  by  our 


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thoughts  and  deeds,  and  some  day,  soon- 
er or  later,  we  shall  go  and  can  only  go 
to  our  own  home — the  home  which  we 
have  built  for  ourselves  in  Heaven.  If 
we  create  no  sunshine  in  our  lives  here, 
we  will  not  have  it  there.  Help  and 
give  us  strength,  we  pray  Thee,  to  over- 
come all  our  many  weaknesses.  This 
we  ask  in  the  name  of  all.  Amen !” 

The  leader  should  know  in  advance 
what  chapter  he  is  going  to  read,  ex- 
plain or  preach  from,  in  “Soul  Science, 
the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death,”  and 
should  sing  songs  and  read  a poem  or  a 
prose  selection  in  harmony  with  the 
subject  chosen,  which  will  help  to  ex- 
plain his  teaching.  It  would  be  well  to 
announce  the  subject  and  make  a few 
remarks  before  reading  the  poem  and 
singing,  and  it  would  be  well  if  these 


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were  all  along  the  same  line  of  thought, 
as  it  would  help  to  impress  on  the  minds 
of  his  hearers  the  subject  for  the  day. 

Do  not  talk  until  you  or  your  hearers 
are  all  tired  out;  limit  your  talk  to  a 
half  of  three  quarters  of  an  hour.  Al- 
ways open  the  meeting  at  the  time  you 
have  announced,  and  do  not  try  at  one 
meeting  to  tell  all  you  know  about 
“Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after 
Death;”  but  enough  to  make  the  audi- 
ence want  to  learn  more  by  coming 
to  hear  you  again.  Never  get  into  a 
heated  debate  with  any  one  at  your 
Sunday  services,  as  it  will  hurt  you, 
and  may  cause  unnecessary  criticism  of 
your  meetings.  If  you  cannot  convert 
a person  or  cause  him  to  think  the  same 
as  you  do,  by  your  preaching  to  him  in 
your  ov/n  way,  do  not  try  to  argue  with 


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him  to  change  his  mind,  for  you  will 
never  convert  a person  against  his  own 
will.  You  will  only  lose  time,  and  per- 
haps cause  trouble.  If  he  wants  to  re- 
main in  darkness,  let  him  do  so.  When 
you  have  done  all  you  can,  you  fulfil 
your  mission.  If  any  one  wants  to 
argue  or  debate,  let  him  select  some 
other  night.  Always  close  the  meeting 
standing,  singing,  and  offering  the  clos- 
ing prayer,  either  the  following  or  one 
similar: 

“We  do  thank  Thee,  Most  Holy  and 
Divine  Intelligence,  for  this  Hour ; may 
it  be  one  that  will  be  long  remembered 
for  the  v/ords  that  have  been  spoken  to 
us,  and  may  they  sink  deep  into  our 
hearts,  and  bring  forth  much  good; 
and  as  we  leave  this  church  we  ask  for 
the  blessing  of  the  Spirit  world  to  go 


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with  US,  and  to  be  and  abide  with  us, 
now  and  forever  more.  Amen.” 

There  should  be  a midweek  meeting 
once  a week,  conducted  about  the  same 
as  the  Sunday  meeting,  with  song, 
reading  of  our  Creed,  and  offering  a 
Prayer,  either  the  following,  or  one 
similar : 

‘‘Great,  Infinite  Source  of  all  Life, 
Thou  over-ruling  Soul  of  the  Universe, 
we  do  thank  Thee  that  our  lives  have 
been  spared  and  that  we  are  again  per- 
mitted to  meet  here  in  Thy  name,  pray- 
ing that  Thou  wouldst  help  us  to  re- 
move the  veil  of  ignorance  from  our 
spiritual  eyes,  so  that  we  may  see  more 
clearly,  and  have  a better  and  clearer 
insight  as  to  what  life  is ; that  we  may 
be  able  to  go  forth  into  this  world  and 
fulfil  our  life  mission,  and,  v/hile  here, 


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be  able  to  lead  and  show  others  who  are 
in  darkness  the  true  way  to  life  and 
light.  Help  and  inspire  us  with  Thy 
Love  and  we  will  give  Thee  the  praise, 
evermore.  Amen 

Explain  the  subject  to  your  audience, 
and  let  the  meeting  be  an  open  one,  to 
give  all  a chance  to  talk  on  whatever 
subject  has  been  chosen  for  that  meet- 
ing, and  to  give  their  experiences. 
Never  allow  any  one  to  take  up  the  en- 
tire time  speaking  or  giving  experi- 
ences, at  the  midweek  meeting.  If 
much  has  to  be  said,  it  can  be  finished 
at  the  next  midweek  meeting.  You  can 
have  the  same  subject  for  discussion  as 
many  times  as  you  please,  if  it  be  agree- 
able to  the  majority  present.  It  would 
be  well  to  announce  at  the  Sunday  ser- 
vice the  subject  for  your  midweek 


HOW  TO  CONDUCT  SERVICES  273 


meeting.  It  will  advertise  all  your 
meetings.  Close  with  song,  and  a 
prayer,  either  the  following  or  one  sim- 
ilar: 

“We  do  thank  you,  dear  Spirit 
Friends,  for  the  many  blessings  we 
have  enjoyed  in  the  past,  and  the  health 
and  strength  of  this  hour;  and  as  we 
leave  we  ask  that  the  blessing  of  the 
Spirit  world  may  go  with  and  help  us 
to  be  better  men  and  women.  These 
favors  we  would  ask  you.  Amen.” 

Classes  should  be,  and  can  be,  held  in 
homes.  Open  such  classes  with  song, 
reading  of  our  Creed,  and  offering  a 
Prayer,  either  the  following  or  one  sim- 
ilar: ^ # : 

“Thou  great  God,  the  Source  of  all 
Life,  we  do  thank  Thee  for  the  many 
blessings  we  have  had,  and  are  still  en- 


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joying  at  the  present  hour.  We  pray 
that  we  may  all  continue  to  enjoy  the 
same  blessings,  and  we  ask  Thee  to  help 
us  do  right.  Inspire  us,  and  fill  us  with 
knowledge,  that  we  may  understand 
ourselves,  so  that  we  may  be  able  to 
know  how  to  live  aright,  be  better  peo- 
ple, and  know  how  to  enjoy  the  bless- 
ings that  are  in  store  for  us,  and  are 
even  now  all  around  us.  Help  us  to 
open  our  spiritual  eyes,  and  to  have  a 
better  spiritual  understanding  than  we 
have  ever  had.  We  want  to  do  right, 
and  we  ask  Thee  to  give  us  strength 
and  guide  our  footsteps  in  the  right 
way,  that  we  may  live  a better  life  in 
the  future.  These  favors  we  ask  in  the 
name  of  all  that  is  good,  pure  and  up- 
right. Amen !” 

If  you  are  living  in  a town  where 


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public  services  according  to  “Soul  Sci- 
ence” teachings  are  held  on  Sunday  and 
in  midweek,  all  should  attend,  and  you 
should  hold  your  home  meeting,  or 
class,  on  some  other  evening  through 
the  week.  In  towns  and  country  places 
where  no  public  meetings  are  held,  hold 
one  in  your  own  home,  and  invite  your 
friends  once  a week  to  read  and  prac- 
tise from  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of 
Life  after  Death,”  as  it  teaches  you. 
Close  the  class  meeting  with  song  and 
prayer,  either  the  following,  or  one  sim- 
ilar: 

“Angels  of  Love,  we  do  thank  you  for 
this  hour,  and  that  we  have  been  able 
to  feel  and  know  that  our  loved  ones 
from  the  Spirit  realm  have  been  near 
to  us  tonight,  trying  to  impress  and 
manifest  themselves  to  us.  Oh,  may 


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we  ever  live  such  pure  lives  that  our 
loved  ones  will  be  able  to  manifest  in 
such  way  that  we  can  see  them.  This 
we  ask  in  the  name  of  our  loved  ones. 
Amen !” 


CHAPTER  XL 


DEATH  IS  NATURAL 

Death  is  as  natural  as  birth,  then 
why  should  we  fear  it?  It  is  as  essen- 
tial as  growth.  If  it  were  not  for 
growth,  there  could  or  would  be  no 
birth;  and,  if  it  were  not  for  birth, 
there  would  be  no  spirit  or  life.  Life 
is  not  complete  until  death.  Death  is 
but  the  change  of  one  form,  and  birth 
the  beginning  of  another. 

Death  is  not  a punishment ; it  is  only 
the  fulfilment  of  God’s  laws.  Our  lives 
and  life  histories,  which  all  are  writing 
by  their  thoughts,  acts  and  deeds,  are 
not  complete  until  death  takes  place. 


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No  excuse  will  be  accepted  then ; for  all 
have  made  and  kept  their  own  records, 
and  have  their  own  life-histories  with 
them,  just  according  to  the  way  they 
have  themselves  written  them,  and  will 
have  to  read  them  themselves  in  their 
spirit  home,  to  get  their  reward,  for 
either  good  or  evil. 

No  one  should  ever  worry  about 
death.  It  only  takes  a few  seconds  to 
die,  while  it  takes  many  years  to  live 
here.  If  anyone  is  going  to  worry  at 
all,  he  should  worry  about  how  to  live 
rightly,  for  they  who  live  right  lives 
will  die  rightly.  Put  in  all  the  time  you 
have  in  thinking  and  living  rightly. 
Never  mind  death ; it  will  use  you  justly 
when  it  comes  and  will  take  you  to  your 
home  in  the  spirit  world  where  you 
belong. 


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279 


Oh,  how  beautiful  is  Death  to  those 
who  have  had  their  spirit  eyes  opened, 
and  can  see  and  know  what  is  around 
them,  spiritually,  and  what  their  life 
will  be  in  the  spirit  world, — who  have 
lived  clean,  pure,  just  lives,  and  have 
overcome  evil  by  good! 


CHAPTER  XLI 


THE  RESURRECTION  MORN 

The  Resurrection  morning  will  come, 
but  there  never  will  be  a day  when  all 
the  billions  and  billions  of  people  that 
have  lived  in  this  world  will  arise  in 
their  material  bodies  and  be  known  or 
judged  for  the  good  or  evil  deeds  done 
while  in  the  body.  That  would  be  ut- 
terly impossible. 

Take  for  instance,  men  who  have 
been  working  in  and  around  rail-mills, 
who  have  fallen  into  large  vats  of  hot 
iron,  so  hot  when  their  bodies  struck 
the  vats,  that  they  were  instantly  de- 
stroyed, and  became  as  part  of  the 


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281 


iron.  No  one  knows  what  railroad 
tracks  those  rails  are  laid  on.  Again, 
when  people  have  been  blown  all  to 
pieces,  or  when  different  fishes  have 
devoured  the  same  body  that  was 
drowned  at  sea,  or  when  persons  had 
their  bodies  cremated  and  the  ashes 
scattered  to  the  four  winds  on  land  or 
sea,  pray  tell  me,  how  could  those  pieces 
of  bodies  all  get  together  on  a Resur- 
rection day? 

The  only  world  that  there  is,  is  the 
world  that  we  are  living  in,  and  that  is 
within  us,  and  at  death  our  material 
world  has  come  to  an  end ; we  lay  aside 
our  material  bodies.  That  is  our  Res- 
urrection day,  for  immediately  we  re- 
ceive our  spiritual  body.  Every  per- 
son that  lives  must  die;  so  at  death  it 
does  not  make  any  difference  where  we 
may  be  at  that  time;  there  and  then 
will  be  our  Resurrection  Morn. 


CHAPTER  XLII 


MY  WORLD 

This  body  of  mine  is  a house  of  mine, 

It  is  all  the  world  for  me; 

It  is  shared  by  my  good  and  my  evil 
thoughts 

Who  live  in  my  world  with  me. 

I have  built  this  world  within  myself, 
It  is  day  and  night  with  me ; 

The  good  and  evil  I have  ever  done 
Live  in  my  world  with  me. 

No  matter  what  you  or  others  may  say. 
My  Spirit  dwells  in  there  with  me; 
And  my  treasures  are  my  golden  deeds 
And  are  in  this  world  with  me. 


MY  WORLD 


283 


This  world  of  mine  holds  all  I possess ; 
It  is  specially  made  for  me, 

To  hold  all  the  good  and  evil  deeds 
That  are  in  this  world  with  me. 

While  living  in  this  world  of  mine 
I have  friends  who  stand  by  me ; 

But  none  can  do  the  work  of  mine 
That  is  in  this  world  for  me. 

When  I cast  aside  this  house  of  clay 
For  the  spirit  realm,  with  glee. 

Reward  awaits  me  for  the  deeds 
That  shared  this  world  with  me. 

If  my  deeds  have  been  good,  my  reward 
will  be  great. 

Good  spirits  will  flock  to  me ; 

They  will  welcome  me  there,  for  the 
good  done  here. 

To  that  Spirit  World  which  is  for  me. 


CHAPTER  XLIII 


PRAYER 

“Thou  Great  Jehovah,  the  All-ruling 
Soul  of  the  Universe,  whom  men  call 
God,  Good  or  Infinite  Intelligence,  call 
Him  or  It  by  what  name  we  choose,  we 
realize  and  know  that  Thou  art  the  God 
that  causeth  this  mortal  flesh  to  walk, 
talk,  and  exist  in  its  present  form.  We 
ask  and  pray  Thee,  to  help  us  to  have 
a better  understanding  from  this  hour, 
of  what  life  is,  and  Whom  Thou  art. 
Fill  us  with  Love  and  Kindness,  inspire 
us  always  to  do  right,  help  us  to  walk 
in  the  right  road;  which  will  make  us 
happier  and  better  people  while  living 


PRAYER 


285 


on  this  mortal  plane  of  existence,  so 
that  when  our  life  work  is  finished,  it 
may  be  said  of  us,  that  we  have  made 
many  homes  happier  and  brighter  by 
our  having  lived,  and  set  a good  exam- 
ple before  the  world.  To  Thee  we  will 
give  the  honor  and  praise.  Amen. 
Amen.” 


CONCLUSION 


The  Author  of  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death”  could  have 
written  volumes  on  the  different  sub- 
jects contained  in  this  book ; but  instead 
of  so  doing,  he  has  endeavored  to  place 
these  thoughts  before  his  readers  in 
such  a plain,  concise  and  condensed 
form  that  all  who  may  read  it  with  an 
unbiased,  liberal,  mind,  looking  for  the 
Truth,  will  find  herein  the  true  way  to 
light  and  happiness.  We  beg  our  read- 
ers not  to  allow  prejudice  or  hearsay  to 
bias  their  judgment  of  this  book,  but  to 
prove  the  thoughts  and  teachings  here- 
in contained,  and  apply  them  to  their 
own  lives;  then  they  will  be  in  a posi- 


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tion  to  judge  of  its  truth  and  worth.  We 
know  that  the  happiness  of  our  lives, 
here  and  hereafter,  does  not  depend 
upon  the  amount  of  matter  and  num- 
ber of  volumes  which  we  may  have 
read,  but  upon  what  we  understand,  di- 
gest and  practise  in  our  daily  life. 


A REQUEST 


It  is  the  desire  of  the  author  of  “Soul  Science, 
the  Proof  of  Life  after  Death”  to  further  strengthen 
the  Truth  contained  therein,  and  at  the  same  time  as- 
sist those  who  may  wish  to  hold  meetings,  or  organ- 
ize Societies  and  Churches  in  the  interest  of  the  Cause, 
by  formulating  a Manual  to  be  used  by  all  Ministers, 
Speakers  and  Teachers  thereof.  He  will  be  glad  if  all 
readers  of  “Soul  Science,  the  Proof  of  Life  after 
Death”  will  be  good  enough  to  send  him  their  names 
and  addresses,  so  that  he  may  keep  in  close  touch  with 
all  who  may  read  the  book;  thus  he  will  be  enabled 
to  send  them  literature  or  other  matter  from  time  to 
time  in  regard  to  the  same,  that  will  be  helpful  to  the 
work. 

The  author  desires,  as  a special  favor,  that  any 
one  who  may  have  songs  or  poems  original  or  selected, 
in  harmony  with  the  teachings  of  “Soul  Science,  the 
Proof  of  Life  after  Death”  will  send  them  to  him,  to 
be  used  in  formulating  such  a Manual,  or  Song  book. 
Any  suggestions  in  regard  to  the  same  that  readers 
may  care  to  make  will  be  gratefully  received. 

Thanking  all  in  advance,  the  author  remains. 
Fraternally, 

FRANKLIN  A.  THOMAS 


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